There’s a good article on Juliette Lewis in the UK Telegraph.

Here are some of the things she is quoted as saying:

On her band Juliette and the Licks- 

‘I get asked all the time if I am "performing" when I’m on stage or if it’s the real me,’ Lewis tells me. ‘And the only way I can answer is by saying that I feel 100 per cent who I am on stage, and that’s this primal little fireball that gets unleashed through music and through doing a live show. Yes, I could release little sparks of it when I was acting, but until I was singing there was always a hunger in the pit of my stomach.’

About her lifestyle -

There are so many weird assumptions that get made about you when you are an actress,’ Lewis says. ‘You know, that you’re a millionaire or that you travel a certain way. People create some kind of mythical thing about the world of Hollywood. I have to laugh at it. It’s not as if I ever had a red carpet outside my door with a horse and carriage waiting. And now that I’m on tour I’m just travelling with my band of brothers and, yeah, we don’t shower enough, and, yeah, it’s completely non-stop, but you see I asked for this.’

 About her theater debut in London -

‘It requires the level of emotion of ten rock shows. And you’ve seen how I do a rock show. But that’s the challenge. I was at home in LA making a new Licks’ album [with Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters on drums, no less] when I got sent the play. I had to read it and make a decision about doing it over the weekend. I couldn’t not do it. It moved me so much. It’s this insane tug-of-war about being imprisoned by love and wanting to break out from that.’

On the Scientology religion -

‘It is totally significant for me. It keeps me rooted and grounded. I’m a defiant person and I’m questioning, so if I’m going to do something, it’s got to be important and meaningful. Scientology is something that you apply to your life, not something you retreat into.’

 On drugs -

‘It’s something that is so in the past tense. I’ve been drug-free for ten years. And I resent, especially in the rock ‘n’ roll world, the "tell us some drugs and sex stories" attitude. It’s real boring. It’s not radical to take drugs any more. There are no more excuses.’