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• I don't want to go to another roller-coaster ride of a movie. If I want that, I'll go to Magic Mountain. I'm really interested in the young directors that are doing different things in cinema. I think the movies people will hold onto are the Rushmores and the Being John Malkoviches. Those are the kind of films I want to do; that's what I'm passionate about.
  • Mean magazine (April 2001)

• I don't think I'm very much like anyone else, really. I'm sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don't see anybody else and go, "Damn, they stole my thing." I'm me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that.
  • As quoted in "From A to Zooey" in The Boston Globe (23 February 2003)

• I have trouble actually describing myself because I’m always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I’m like, “OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?”
  • As quoted in "Zooey sings!" by Matt Pais in Metromix (21 July 2008)

She & Him : Volume One (2008)

• O-o-old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart
  Piece of the puzzle, you're my missing part
  Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?
  • "Sentimental Heart"

• Why don't you sit right down and stay awhile?
  We like the same things and I like your style
  Its not a secret; why do you keep it?
  I'm just sitting on the shelf
  • Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?

• I got to get your presence
  Let's make it known
  I think you're just so pleasant
  I would like you for my own
  • Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?

• For those of you who tried, but didn't make it,
  Settle down — it's never what you think.
  The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley,
  And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink.
  • "This Is Not a Test"

• For those of you who thought you'd be forgotten,
  The friends you've made will try their best, to make it so.
  Think of all the beauty that you left behind you.
  You can take it if you want it, and then let it go.
  • "This Is Not a Test"

• For those of us who try to keep remembering,
  Try to do our better than our best.
  Think of all the children in the drifts of snow.
  Winners never quit, but winters never rest.
  • "This Is Not a Test"

• I was never no, never no, never enough,
  But I can try, I can try to toughen up.
  • "Change Is Hard"

• Change is hard, I should know.
  I should know.
  • "Change Is Hard"

• I somehow see what's beautiful in things that are ephemeral
  I'm my only friend, am I?
  Love is just a piece of time
  in the world
  in the world.
  And I couldn't help but fall in love again.
  • "I Thought I Saw Your Face Today"

• Take it back
  Oh, take it back
  I don't want your lovin', anymore
  Let me live
  Oh, let me live
  It's not you who I sing for
  • "Take It Back"

• I don't wanna' wonder whether you love me
  I don't wanna' wonder whether you care
  • "Take It Back"

• When I saw you smile
  I saw a dream come true
  • "I Was Made For You"

• I won't be waitin' any more cause I know
  Baby, baby
  I was made for you
  • "I Was Made For You"

• My eyes are so bleary
  I guess I'm young but I feel so weary
  I've tried to express it
  But I think its all a bore
  Its at the heart of me,
  A very part of me
  • "Black Hole"

• It's nowhere in here
  And its everywhere else that I don't wanna be,
  But I'm stuck here getting misty over you
  I'm alone on a bicycle for two.
  • "Black Hole"

• Saw your face,
  My hand you took
  Just like in a story book,
  And you got me
  Yeah, you‘ve got me
  • "Got Me"

• I can feel your heartbeat,
  Where I lay my head
  ‘Cause you’ve got me
  Yeah you’ve got me
  • "Got Me"

• When I was a little bit younger
  The strain I was under could make me cry.
  Now I’m a little bit older,
  A little bit bolder,
  Never so shy
  • "Sweet Darlin" (written with Jason Schwartzman)

• Sweet darlin’, come hold me,
  Just a little bit longer now
  • "Sweet Darlin"