I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was putting most of my energy into that instead of acting. But my father told my sister and me to look at whatever needed to be done and do that job well, no matter what it was.
A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.
I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.

