Once you get everything out of your head about what everybody else is going to think, will radio play it - and I hope they do, I really do - once you shed all of that and just be who you are, that's who I am. That's taken a lot of growing up. I've come into myself musically and as a woman, and I hope to keep growing. If you don't grow, you die.

I feel like it's the most unnatural thing for two humans, especially of the opposite sex, to live in harmony under one roof. You realize how different men and women are.

One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records... You're forced to listen to the whole thing. And it's so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records.

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

Acting isn't like being an athlete. There's no real quantifiable measure. It's just a bunch of people feeling things.

Football is hard to have success. It is tough to do your job.

Football is big business - you can't get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

Father Time is whether you're an athlete or not an athlete. Father Time is always around. I think I'm just special.