The year she turned 40, Jenny Lewis decamped for New York City.
That was terrifying, the now 42-year-old tells EW.
I moved away from my home and my friends and family.
Credit: Autumn DeWilde
Thankfully, her friend Annie Clark, better known as St. Vincent, took her in.
My girlfriends really came to my rescue, adds Lewis.
I always write these songs, and theyre almost little prophetic nuggets for myself, she says.
It was kind of like this antidote.
I felt like I lost my inner mystic, she says.
The result is a beautifully flawed account of what her life actually looks (and sounds) like.
I fing love Auto-Tune, but thats not what this [album] was.
Its a little pitchy.
Some of the words arent exactly what I had written down.
But I think its human.
That aspect also lends itself to where Lewis sees herself now in her career.
Its like, personally, Im on the line, she says.
Im 42 years old.
Im a professional woman, a single woman without children.
Im on the fing line.
