My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.

I've always wanted to do a female buddy film, the kind the guys get to do.

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.

Digital is not about putting up your story on the web. It's about a fundamental redrawing of journalists' relationship with our audience, how we think about our readers, our perception of our role in society, our status.

I think people respond to dystopian stories because they're ways of acting out anxieties that we have and fears that we have about the future. So much media's coming at you over the Internet, your brain gets overloaded. You don't know what to do with it. And one thing you can do with it is read a story.

I have an obsession with haters: the great mess of the Internet expressing itself. I love to type my name on Twitter and read everything. It's always enlightening to see what they hate about you: I'm not pretty enough to be on stage, or my music doesn't make any sense. It feels good to read that, like I'm heading in the right direction!

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.