She does not allow anyone into her Hollywood Hills office which she describes as a "cluttered, airless room...nothing has been moved or cleaned for 17 years because she is superstitious" and prefers to think of that room as her "secret world". In that room, she records melodies with a tape recorder in which she plays them again and chooses the songs she likes the most. Her mother has expressed concern that she is too engulfed by her work, saying "she's always, constantly thinking of a song", and urges her to think about starting a family.
