Jenny Lewis Quotes
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It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.
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I think it's always an adjustment for me, but I do feel like, ultimately, I can kind of write anywhere. It just takes a second to get back in to the groove.
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I love kids, but there's always time for them later. You can always adopt; you can have a puppy. The songs are my children.
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I'm constantly dodging people in L.A. There are some people I don't ever wanna see again, but if you live where you grew up, you're running into people constantly.
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I scored one film by myself, which was the hardest thing I think I've ever done.
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When I was a teenager, I went to Europe on a backpacking trip by myself, and I met a woman who was following Sebadoh. It was the early 1990s, and that was my introduction to indie rock.
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I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and family.
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You can find me at three in the morning in my living room with a glass of wine and really bad '90s trip hop beats blaring from my headphones.
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When you jump up the Earth wants you back.
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Sometimes you don't understand what you're going through until you're on the other side of it.
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I like babies, but not in the front row. I don't want to sing directly to a baby.
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I am a huge hip-hop fan, and growing up, I only listened to hip-hop, so I dressed accordingly.
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Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.
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It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.
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When you're in a band, inevitably, someone is siding with someone else, and you're fighting over something that happened in the band five years ago.
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I love 'Wowee Zowee.' That was the first Pavement record I bought.
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I felt like onstage I have to have a certain amount of anonymity, like, personal anonymity, to feel loose and free. When you're up there with people who've known you for a decade, and you make a bad joke and you hear the cackling behind the drums, it's hard to get lost in the moment.
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When I think people like one record more than the other, then someone will surprise me.
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I used to think, if I could realise I'd dieThen I would be a lot nicerUsed to believe in a lot moreNow I just see straight aheadThat's not to say I don't have good timesBut as for my days, I spend them waiting...
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I learn lessons with every interview I give.
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I've had enough of breakdowns and diagrams-Judging from picture books, apparently Heaven is a partly cloudy place.
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I didn't know anything about music when I started a band. I barely knew how to play a guitar. I didn't know how to produce records. I learned how to play bass guitar and keyboards in Rilo Kiley. I picked up a lot from my collaborators.
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I think I have a hard time expressing myself in my relationships. I use songs to tell people how I'm feeling. If I can't say 'I love you,' I'll write a song about it and hope that the person figures it out.
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It's interesting how songs can evolve. Sometimes I'll write a song that feels relevant in the moment, but four years later, I don't want to sing it anymore. Then something will happen in my life, and the song becomes relevant again.