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Vegas - 2015 - Issue 2 - Late Spring

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Promise and really seeing that we have the capability to change the world by educating its children. I'd like to see us investing in education, in the environ- ment. I'd like to see us treating one another like we're all in this together. If every one of us really embraces that and says, "I should start with myself, then I can have a ripple effect in my universe," that's it. Vegas: Local car dealers talk about how you wrote a Huffington Post op-ed in 2013 about t he benef it s of buying a diesel vehicle. W hat inspired that article? SB: I would love for clean-diesel vehicles to be a huge thing everywhere. It all ties back to being passionate about the environment and looking at ways to lower our fossil fuel consumption, looking at ways to create cleaner vehicles. Even when I was just look ing for a ca r a couple of yea rs ago, doing a ll t he resea rch a nd being able to sor t of compa re a reg ula r ga s opt ion, a hybr id option, and a TDI—a clean diesel vehicle, and clean diesel won far and away—I just think it's something we can do so easily, and I really wish that people were being given more options. This isn't the kind of thing that we can wait on, tak- ing care of the environment. MH: Now, hold on—I heard you were at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Vegas last September? I was there, and I did not know that you were there. [Laughs] Tell me about that, and how was your experience in Vegas? SB: Oh, it was so much fun. MH: How great is that city? Unlike any other place on the planet. SB: It is. It's so wild—kind of like Disneyland for grown-ups. MH: I feel like it's another planet. [Laughs] SB: It is. [Laughs] I've only ever really been in Vegas for a weekend, and it's usually to celebrate—we'll do a bachelorette party, or a birthday.... We always just have a g reat t ime. Tao has a lways been lovely; L ight has a lways been lovely.... Usually my MO in Vegas is, if I'm going for the weekend, I love to go out with my friends one night, and then love to hit the pool the next day, have a great meal, and see a show, and then head home on Sunday. I think that's kind of the perfect mix. I'm not one of those people who can have a crazy night out two nights in a row. [Laughs] MH: Yes, exactly. SB: Two of my best friends and I, we f lew in on Saturday morning. We spent a day lying by the pool and drinking smoothies and catching up. We saw so many of our favorite musicians play. I got to present Lorde, which was awesome 'cause I think she's the coolest, and I was backstage with her before I went out to present her performance, and I'm watching her warm up, and I sort of forgot that she's only 17. And then she gets out onstage, and she's such a force, and it was really cool. I thought, We're lucky we've got another really amazing gen- eration of strong and incredible women who really have something to say and really care about their art. MH: That's exciting to watch. I feel like the younger generations are so much more self-possessed than we were. I remember thinking that even when I met you—I was like, God, if I knew what you knew when I was your age, I'd be a lot further along in the game, 'cause it's exciting to see young women go after what we want and not have any sort of trepidation about it, but just be like: This is what I want, this is what I do, this is what I'm capable of, and I know I can do it, and I'm going to go after it. It's fun to see people put sort of self-doubt and limitation behind them. SB: I think it's taken me forever to learn that. I feel like something sort of magi- cal happens to women in their 30s, where suddenly you go, Oh! All the things that people told me—stop worrying and don't doubt yourself and you're doing great—oh, I see why they said that. And then I was looking at this girl and I was thinking, Look at how much she knows about everything. MH: Already! [Laughs] SB: Yeah, and it's just going to get better for them. V 76  vegasmagazine.com

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