Idina Menzel Talks About Music & Life with Hubby Taye Diggs
Idina Menzel made others turn green with envy when she walked away with the 2004 Tony Award for her performance as Elphaba in Wicked. Always involved in music on some level, this Long Island native went from singing at weddings and Bar Mitzvahs to a Broadway stage, making her debut in Rent in 1995. She’s been performing ever since in concert, on CDs and, of course, the stage. In an interview in Northeastern News, the student newspaper of Northeastern University, she talks about her new album “I Stand,” and how she manages to write songs about heartbreak while happily married to actor Taye Diggs.
“Well, first of all, no marriage is perfect. My husband and I love each other very much, but we have our struggles, and ways that we miscommunicate, and the fact that we live in different cities all the time and have to spend a lot of time apart…We’ve been together 12 years, so you grow together, you grow apart, you have to find a way back to each other and I can write a really sad song about just a normal argument because I feel so badly when the two of us don’t get along. It can be something so simple, but for that moment the emotion is so deep for me that I just write about how that feels.”
Asked where she sees herself in ten years, she said, “I’d like to have a baby soon. But that doesn’t mean I’ll necessarily slow down for that long.” She adds that she’d like to do another album and another Broadway show. “I just want to stay true to myself and do things that move me and really connect with people.”