Elle's September cover girl Lindsay Lohan opened up in an interview conducted the day before her Memorial Day DUI crash. Highlights include:

On her reputation for drunk driving: "I wouldn't violate ... I'm much more responsible than that. I would not do that."
On attending rehab at Wonderland before her 21st birthday: "I was growing up and going out a lot, and I needed to have a balance. I was glad I went, because I needed to get away from everyone and I didn't know how to do that. And I learned a lot there. A bunch of my friends - I was with them last night - they're in AA for, like, years."
On her future projects: "There's this Walter Salles film I really want to do. It's called On the Road. It has the vibe of that movie The Dreamers [...] I want to work with Walter Salles so bad. I had to audition for him. It was the first audition I've had since Freaky Friday."
On the media firestorm surrounding her: "I feel like the asshole, the idiot, because I feel like I'm distracting from the other things that are important, like global warming and that kind of stuff. I genuinely mean that. And I don't know what to do."
On avoiding fame: "I hate it, like, when these people say, 'Well, why do you go to the Ivy if you don't want ...' Seriously, I like their food! I can't go to a restaurant? I know I'm going to get pictures taken. I'm fine with it. And I'm going to go have their food. People give you shit for it: 'Don't go on Robertson!' What, I can't drive down the street?"
On being photographed without underwear: "It was once, and it was when I was in Venice. And I was rushing through the room, threw the Prada dress on. And that's what happened. And I didn't even see the picture. I don't look at that shit - that's gross. If I wear a dress I have underwear on."
On sleep troubles: "I have really bad insomnia. My whole life. I get nervous at night going to bed, and being awake alone really freaks me out."
On her career aspirations: "I just want to be nominated for an award for all the work I've done. It's so funny - people forget that I played two characters in Parent Trap when I was twelve years old."

The September issue of ELLE hits newsstands in NY and LA on August 7, and nationwide on August 14.

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