MANDY MOORE - MOORE DEBUTS NEW SONGS AT SUNDANCE

Pop star/actress MANDY MOORE nervously debuted five songs at a private concert last Saturday (20JAN07) at the Sundance Film Festival. The 22-year-old star has been writing the personal songs to work through her break-up with SCRUBS star ZACH BRAFF and subsequent battle with depression. She tells American publication People, "I'm more nervous to actually have the material out there and to have people know that they are my words and my songs. "I feel lucky to finally do the movies I want to do, and they're my words and I'm proud of it, and you can sort of stand behind it with confidence and dive in headfirst." Moore insists she isn't worried about people trying to analyse her lyrics for clues as to why she split with Braff saying, "I'm not really worried about it. "People can infer what they want from the songs and that's perfectly fine. I just know in a selfish way it was like therapy for me. "Whatever was going on in my life, just to be able to get it down and turn a negative situation into something I felt a little more positive about at the end of the day, it's cathartic."