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That is so personal, and it’s my pet peeve when people press you on it. And it’s always women who get asked! Is anybody saying that to George Clooney?

Zooey Deschanel

I don’t like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, ‘Blah blah blah movies.’ I find it incredibly boring.
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Blah Boring People
It’s great, because we’ve had some really great people playing with us who really have studied the record and been able to recreate a lot of what was done. But I would need a choir of eight, probably, to do all of the backup vocals.
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Eight Needs People
I don’t like to plan harmonies too much, because there’s something fun that happens when you just sing a pass, then sing another pass, and layer them on top of each other.
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Fun Layers Much Too
Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I’d say it’s appealing to 80% men and 20% women.
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College Men Site
I’m a big fan of the ’80s fantasy genre that I grew up watching, movies like “Krull” and “Clash of the Titans” and “Time Bandits” and all that stuff.
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Fans Fantasy Stuff
To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.
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Difficult Gluten Vegan
I feel like I can’t fully understand what’s happening now until I really understand what’s happened before. But you do get sort of bogged down a little bit when you’re trying to study so many years’ worth of music. It can be a little bit overwhelming.
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Littles Trying Years
I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident – and those end up being the magic. Every time I’ve followed my gut it’s been better than when I’ve tried to do what I was supposed to do.
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Every Magic Records Thinking Time
I’ve been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips and I can’t believe her transformation from this folk singer in Canada.
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Believe Canada Singers
The average person tells a few white lies.
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Average Lying White
I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There’s something really, really fun about that.
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Crazy Fun People
I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards – Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
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Hart Jazz Thinking
I finally figured out how to read origami directions.
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Figured Origami Out
I think there’s a certain space people have decided I occupy – the funny-sidekick thing.
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People Space Thinking
Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.
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Dollars Needs Song
Women I admired growing up – Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep – were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin.
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Beautiful Growing Pilates

That is so personal, and it’s my pet peeve when people press you on it. And it’s always women who get asked! Is anybody saying that to George Clooney?

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