Do you consider yourself a feminist role model?
I think I’m post-feminist. I think that I’m kind of a result of the feminist movement. Therefore I don’t really need to be didactic about it. I think that everything feminists fought for, I am. I am a role model in the sense that I got to achieve everything that was a struggle for the generation before me.
Do you read about yourself online and in articles?
No. Absolutely not. It’s just useless. What am I going to get from that? It’s narcissistic and also self-destructive simultaneously.
Since you are also a musician, what music are you currently listening to?
When I have time I listen to the radio and KCRW if I’m in L.A., which is National Public Radio. They play a really interesting mix of everything that’s happening of the moment. There’s not one person that I can say has really got me hooked in. I’ve listened to that singer Duffy’s album a few times and she’s interesting. But I feel like so many singers are trying to capture elements of Dusty Springfield or Dionne Warwick or Nina Simone and, for me, I’d rather listen to those people. They’re the real things and their music was infused with a different state of mind and, I don’t know, I just find that more emotional and interesting.
Every interview I’ve read with you always brings up your former best friend Madonna. Are you tired of being asked about her?
No, I understand it. I think when we were friends it kind of predated the Internet and that kind of total obsession with celebrity. I think that we were both really funny and interesting together and I think people just found that captivating and they miss it and I do, too, to a certain degree. I think I’ve remained relatively the same in terms of the kind of friend and the kind of person I am. She doesn’t maintain friendships in that way. I think it’s a loss for her, really.
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