Actress Zooey Deschanel performs with the indie rock band She & Him.During a summer tour with her musical duo She & Him, Zooey Deschanel has performed songs about tortured love and broken hearts. Since she wrote the songs with her partner, M. Ward, and she’s recently gone through a divorce herself, she’s obviously using her musical career to purge some emotions, right?
Wrong.
“That is not what I do,” says Deschanel. “I think that lovelorn is a more interesting emotion; I tend to be interested in that emotion more than I tend to be interested in the emotion of happy content love, so my big influences have always been a lot of different things.”
The singer-actress is taking a break from her hit sitcom “The New Girl” to focus on She & Him, which recently released its fourth album, “Volume 3,” in the spring. She & Him finished its summer tour Thursday night in Virginia.
Deschanel says she doesn’t draw from her personal life when she creates, and instead relies on her own healthy imagination.