I never had any Godfather nor superstar boyfriends to piggy ride upon in the film industry.
I was crashing with a boyfriend on his couch in Fort Green. At first, I was temping - insurance agencies, nonprofits - and then, in between temping, I was going on job interviews, and I could name 12 publications, some of which no longer exist, that didn't even call me back or interviewed me and had no interest.
I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that's what consumes me; think a lot of our heart is relationships. Not just with boyfriend or girlfriend but all your relationships in your life with other people and our interactions with other humans.
My boyfriend has always been a collector of art. He once rang up Paul Kenton and asked him to paint a New York skyline for me. He did, and it is the first painting that has ever been painted just for me.
All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.
In America people get depressed for no reason. They say, ‘I'm sad my boyfriend didn't call me.' I tell them, ‘How would you like to spend 12 hours on a line to get bread or a chicken?' That is depressing.