Growing up, my dad took me to the opera.

Female empowerment is very strong in my life and that's how I am.

Oh my gosh, I mean, I've had many experiences of men calling me psycho.

I think, personally for me I always work on the next goal and wanna figure out how to achieve it.

Writing a novel, when it's all going well, it's wonderful. You're lost in the world, and you have a relationship with your own mind. Also, as a novelist, you don't have to yell at anyone. But being an executive producer of a TV show, all you have is people coming at you with questions, and you're making decisions, decisions, decisions.

Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'

John Hirschbeck is a wonderful person with a wonderful family. I'm so glad that we have become friends.

When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids.