Some people just aren't meant to be happy.
I think we are all individuals at the end of the day. There's nothing about culture that can prescribe who you're meant to be.
The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese.
I never meant to be an actress.
I have grown up being a father. When my first son was born I was 17. I was a child bringing up a child. I was not capable of understanding what a dad was meant to be.
I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.
I just wanted to go to New York and be on Broadway, but then I was accepted by Juilliard, where they trained me in classical voice. It was great in the end, but at the time, I thought, 'What am I doing here? This is not my path.' But it was absolutely my path and where I was meant to be.
The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.
I'm clearly not meant to be in front of the camera. I'm really not meant for anything but behind the camera.
I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.
