I think there’s a certain space people have decided I occupy – the funny-sidekick thing.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI think there’s a certain space people have decided I occupy – the funny-sidekick thing.
ZOOEY DESCHANELIf I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’
ZOOEY DESCHANELI 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.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI’m into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn’t feel true, I don’t want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that’s why I don’t always fit into the world of performing arts.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI 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.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI’m just being myself. There is not an ounce of me that believes any of that crap that they say. We can’t be feminine and be feminists and be successful? I want to be a f-king feminist and wear a f-king Peter Pan collar. So f-king what?
ZOOEY DESCHANELI also feel like it’s the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people will see things that I don’t see.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI think that it’s our responsibility to create a world in which girls can grow up and not have to limit their dreams or possibilities.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI’m the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I’m really surprised if a movie I like does well.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI can’t go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.
ZOOEY DESCHANELCalifornia is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted ’til it was already gone
ZOOEY DESCHANELI’ll have these internal moments where I’m empathizing with someone else or feeling something myself, but I’m like, “How can I see the best in this situation?” Sometimes those are the moments where you can have the most clarity.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI’ve always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.
ZOOEY DESCHANELOh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. ‘Waters of March,’ I wish I had written ‘My Baby Just Cares for Me,’ I wish I had written ‘This Will Be Our Year,’ I mean, there’s millions of them. ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice?’
ZOOEY DESCHANELThe internet’s like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It’s fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don’t care to hear it.
ZOOEY DESCHANELIn a lot of movies, you’ll see people on crazy dates, and you’re like, ‘No one would ever do that!’
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