Robert Schwartzman's Long Musical Journey

I'm waiting, waiting for nothing. You're leaving, leaving me hanging. When did your heart go missing? When did your heart go missing? I treat you like a princess, but your life is just one big mess. When did your heart go missing? When did your heart go missing?

I'm Oliver Trevena here at the Young Hollywood Studio with Robert Schwartzman. How are you?

Good, how are you?

Good. Well, we were just talking about being young again. Well, at least we're at Young Hollywood. That's good.

Yeah.

That's good. Well, you're younger than me.

Am I?

You are actually younger than me, yeah. You're how old now?

29, yeah.

31, you see.

31? Yeah.

We've both just said our real ages on camera. That's true. That's very rarely happens in Hollywood.

It did. Yeah.

When did your heart go missing? We know you from Rooney. This is your moment, isn't it? As Kelly Clarkson would say.

It feels good.

It does it feel good?

It feels better than it's ever felt before. Really? No, it feels good. I mean, it's I started Rooney in high school. Right. And um and it was we spent a lot of time like touring, a lot of time making music together and then um But it's, you know, it's nice to grow up with your friends and then make music together.

Our lives are gone. It all won't last. You don't have to lie. No, you don't have to lie.

Oh. Double Capricorn is the album. Double Capricorn. And why double Capricorn? Are you a Capricorn?

I'm a double Capricorn.

What's a double Capricorn?

Well, it's like It's pretty cool. I mean, my mother like likes to do sometimes she thinks she knows how to do a chart, someone's chart where you plug in like they're where they're from, where they were born, and the time, and location. A lot of people just read a horoscope and they're like, "Oh, you know, I'm a I'm a Sagittarius, so this is what it says this month." But it's more decent. But it's really more It's way more detailed. Like if you have all the facts and all the details, you can plug in and do your chart. Okay. But she would always say, "You're double Capricorn." And I thought as as my first solo record, I would just put it all on the line.

Live like a live in your life. Live like a live in your life. Live like a live in your life. But you're already gone. I told you over and over again. I never owed you a saw you a thing. When I want you to go, you tell me no. Never said, "I told you so." I never should have took it in. There ain't a place you never been.

And the most important thing about this record is it all goes to the charity that you're working with, the Tibetan Healing Fund, right?

Yeah, totally.

Which is amazing. All of it. Not like a percentage.

Yeah, it's good.

The whole lot.

Exactly. Exactly, yeah. This uh charity, it's called the Tibetan Healing Fund. And um it's a it's a wild story. And I'll tell you the story. If I can.

Tell me, tell me. Go for it. It's crazy. Go for it.

My mother, uh we grew up in Los Angeles. Right. I'm from the city. She loves to have uh now that all the kids are grown up and left and out of the house, she loves to have interesting people stay at the house. A friend of ours knew a Tibetan monk. He was coming to he was going to UCLA to get his PhD. And he wanted to stay at the house. He's a senior monk. He's not like a young He's a senior monk. He's been through a lot. He's he's a doctor in Tibetan medicine. He teaches at university in Tibet. Well, so I went there last year and uh got to see what he was doing. He was kind of shy. He didn't really talk about what he was doing while he was here in LA. But he was with us for four years, got his PhD. I was making my record at the time, Double Capricorn. And I felt like um maybe there's a way to marry the two where I could raise money for what he's doing and help build maybe another birthing center or more money to help make these visits they make. I most people I talk to, fans who have met at shows, everyone kind of has a weird perspective of where money goes for music. Right. This way it's very clear it's going to it's going to

Exactly. Everyone knows that it's going. Exactly. Doing a good thing.

4:00 a. m. Remember when you took me into the I get the in the car like a more I get your motor roll out roll out we in.

Movies as well. You're back to it a bit, haven't you?

Mhm.

Any going into that anymore?

Yeah, yeah, totally. I shot a short film recently uh for uh my cousin, her name's Gia Coppola. She's an incredible up-and-coming director. And uh we went to Vegas, we shot this short and then um so it's cool. It's really good. It's it's a really cool project and there's other things in the works.

You don't have to lie. Living, living, living, living. You don't have to lie.

Oh.