Zooey Claire Deschanel is an American actress, model, musician, and singer-songwriter. She made her film debut in Mumford and had a supporting role in Cameron Crowe's film Almost Famous.

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.

I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.

I like for people to have fun and that comes out in the music.

Music expresses - you express yourself with music.

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

I'm inspired by music. Sometimes more than I want to be.

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.

Music is a paradise lost to us long long ago, perhaps never to be regained

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

I can sometimes hear her music now, after thirty years -- and remember the leaves falling on some smoky autumn afternoon, the air crisp and the sounds of dogs barking, and train whistles far away.

When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.