Jenny Lewis Quotes
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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 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 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 can't imagine how people will react to my music. For me, it's a really fluid process from one record to the next, but it's really up to the listener.
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I'm typically not a heels person.
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You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.
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I'm a pretty terrible rapper. I always have been.
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I used to be a huge collector, and my big thing was stickers.
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If I'm not crying while writing a song, I'm not doing it right.
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It's all of the good that won't come out of us and how eventually our hands will just turn to dust, if we keep shaking them standing here on this frozen lake.
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I think a lot of musicians play for the playback. I mean, that's the joy of recording - you want to hear what you've done and what you've contributed - but never listening to that playback kind of removes the intellectual part of making music, and it removes the tendency to be revisionist.
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When you're in your mid-thirties, the cult of people who have children around you all want you in their cult, and they constantly ask you, 'So when are you going to have a baby?'
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I'm always pretty nervous when I do anything! I walk very slowly. I'm very careful.
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I'm not a religious person by any means. But I'm curious.
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Losing your parent is unlike anything.
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And it's bad news, I don't blame youI do the same thing, I get lonely tooAnd you're bad news, my friends tell me to leave youThat you're bad news...
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I read with every broken heartWe should become more adventurous
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My favorite days off on the road are typically nowhere, like Bismarck, North Dakota, and you find yourself in a mall, and you're like, 'This is awesome!'
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I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.