I’ve been writing music since I was about eight. I would write sporadically. I wrote a lot of music in high school. I guess the oldest song on the record (“I Thought I Saw Your Face”) is about eight years old.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that’s amazing when people can do that, but I think there’s room for the tone singers. And there aren’t a lot of them.
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I think the best comedic actors don’t play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it’s real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do – it’s embarrassing.
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Proving people wrong is probably my favorite thing to do.
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It’s nice that there are movies and songs about romance – it’s what motivates us as human beings. I’m all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
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I would watch ‘Wizard of Oz,’ like every day, when I was two. I had a hard time understanding that I couldn’t go into the film, because it felt so real to me.
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It can make you a little crazy when you are too connected to a product.
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My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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I’m not going to say I’m a big girl. I’m a very small person, but I’m a healthy weight. That might be a little weird for Hollywood.
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When I was 13, I wasn’t the coolest kid in my class, and that inner dork is a wonderful thing to have.
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I’d be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means… Yeah, authentic and creative.
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I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
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I have trouble actually describing myself because I’m always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I’m like, “OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?”
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, ‘Oh my God!’
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I feel like making music because – and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record – there’s more of myself in it.
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I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
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To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.
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