In addition to trying to get her next album off the ground, Michelle Branch has been raising the child she had with ex-husband and former bassist Teddy Landau in 2005 when she was 22. Since her daughter was four weeks old, Branch has been bringing little Owen on tour with her. And when her career slowed down due to the album delays, Branch used the down time to her advantage.
"It would have been really, really tough to juggle all of that when I was 24," Branch told Glamour. "I got to spend the most important years of her life being a normal mom, so that kept me grounded, focused, and balanced. On tough days I still had to get dinner on the table, help with homework, and get laundry done. That was kind of my meditation that kept me sane. Because at the end of the day, she's the most important thing. She saved me."
Owen doesn't have much interest in her parents' careers, but she does share her mom's taste in music. Coincidence? Not exactly. "She has good taste because being under our roof — she only hears what we have playing," Branch told Observer. "She likes everything from The Strokes to Pollock." But as for pop music? Not so much. "She has friends at school who are into Justin Bieber and One Direction, and she's like, 'I don't get it.'"
