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Jenny Lewis Quotes

I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can’t relate to the music or the lyrics.

– Jenny Lewis

I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn’t cool to listen to country when I was 12.

– Jenny Lewis

When I think people like one record more than the other, then someone will surprise me.

– Jenny Lewis

My hair looks so good out in the desert, it’s unbelievable. It’s, like, perfectly not frizzy.

– Jenny Lewis

My mother had a great vinyl collection, and she was constantly playing female singer-songwriters. I first learned about classic song structures by listening to them, and Laura Nyro particularly stood out. Her voice was outside what you’d usually hear on the radio; that really appealed to me.

– Jenny Lewis

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.

– Jenny Lewis

I like babies, but not in the front row. I don’t want to sing directly to a baby.

– Jenny Lewis

When you make a solo record, it’s you. It’s your name. It has to be the right songs for how you feel.

– Jenny Lewis

For me personally, I just try to prove myself in my work. I’m just trying to get better at what I do, and hopefully that will impact women in music, and hopefully the girls in the crowd will see my up there as a bandleader and think, ‘Wow, maybe I can do that one day.’

– Jenny Lewis

I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.

– Jenny Lewis

I think you kind of lose the human aspect when you make things too perfect.

– Jenny Lewis

As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.

– Jenny Lewis

I had a huge Lisa Frank sticker collection. I traded them.

– Jenny Lewis

When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw for a teenager: there were no cellphones, no Internet, and the only music I had with me was this cassette by Liz Phair. I was writing a lot of poetry, and she embodied a talky style of songwriting that I found very accessible.

– Jenny Lewis

Certainly, we all wonder what is beyond, and when you lose a loved one, I think part of the grieving process includes where that person might have gone or if you’ll ever see them again. I think it forces you to look up to the sky, to the cosmos.

– Jenny Lewis

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!’

– Jenny Lewis

I think art doesn’t have to be created in a period of misery, but it certainly helps.

– Jenny Lewis

In the past, like for the last Rilo Kiley record, ‘Under the Blacklight,’ I wore exclusively hot pants because the themes in that record were the underbelly of Los Angeles.

– Jenny Lewis

My mother’s records were formative for me, but when I became a teenager, I wanted to find songs that she wasn’t hip to. She was so hip, though, that I had to go outside rock n’ roll – so for about 10 years, I only listened to hip-hop, house and techno.

– Jenny Lewis

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.

– Jenny Lewis

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.

– Jenny Lewis

I’m not a religious person by any means. But I’m curious.

– Jenny Lewis

I was a big fan of ‘Days of Our Lives’ growing up.

– Jenny Lewis

I’m not trying to repeat myself or cater myself to one specific group of people.

– Jenny Lewis

My true social media passion is making creepy short movies on Instagram.

– Jenny Lewis

I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything – not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.

– Jenny Lewis

I’m always pretty nervous when I do anything! I walk very slowly. I’m very careful.

– Jenny Lewis

I can parallel park pretty well – I’m a great driver.

– Jenny Lewis

When I’m sick of myself, and when I don’t know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don’t know where to turn musically, being in a band – Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny – the collaborative nature is really exciting.

– Jenny Lewis

If you’re a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write – to finish the poem, as they say.

– Jenny Lewis

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