I've probably cried with a lot of songs - in teenage crushes, adult crushes.

I don't think I was a catalyst for the women's movement.

Women absolutely deserve respect.

I've met my share of guys who have insulted and assaulted my intelligence with their stories and games. I say hello and goodbye!

As an actor and a writer, the anxiety about doing TV is that you start to feel like you get married to one tone or one kind of idea and you feel like you want to be able to express a lot of different things.

For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).

The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else's flaws, so of course you're gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, 'If you loved me, you wouldn't criticise me.' Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.

Love is something in the heart and in the mind, so why would you chastise anyone for that? And this is something that I feel very strongly about.