California is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted ’til it was already gone
ZOOEY DESCHANELCalifornia is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted ’til it was already gone
ZOOEY DESCHANELFor me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
ZOOEY DESCHANELRomantic comedies are usually about when love works.
ZOOEY DESCHANELThere’s something about guitars, they’re just so big, you know what I mean? You’re just like, ‘Ugh!’ It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI like to learn things slow, I like learning alot, I like to get it all again and in the end, You know you get what you got…
ZOOEY DESCHANELSometimes Matt and I just do duets folk-style. Part of the fun of seeing a live show is having it be different from the way that you hear it in your bedroom or wherever you listen to music.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI don’t know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn’t even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.
ZOOEY DESCHANELThe first album I bought with my own money was ‘A Hard Day’s Night.’
ZOOEY DESCHANELIt’s really fun to say no sometimes. I just don’t want to discount how fun it is to say no and exercise your right to say no, and – as a girl – it’s important to know how to say no… and that no means no!
ZOOEY DESCHANELWhen I was 13, I wasn’t the coolest kid in my class, and that inner dork is a wonderful thing to have.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI think there’s a certain space people have decided I occupy – the funny-sidekick thing.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don’t try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
ZOOEY DESCHANELGirls get competitive, as though there’s only one spot in the world for everything _ but that’s not true. We need to stick together and see there’s more to life than pleasing men. It’s important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI 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.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don’t feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I’m a storyteller, and history is stories – the most compelling stories.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI’m a romantic, but I’m not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me.
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