Lisa Loeb Quotes

With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.

Ive learned from dieting and not dieting that literally the thing that works best for me is that if I think of it, I better go ahead and have it.

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.

Again, I'm used to speaking to a lot of people; I have a lot of friends and family, and I perform music and speak in front of a lot of crowds. So I share with people already a lot in my life.

You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.

The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.

I'm old-school. I want to be there to drop off my daughter at school and pick her up.

I think that I'm throwing but I'm thrown

I make sure to sleep eight hours, and I'm much better about eating, because I'm not standing in front of my pantry. I go to the market and pick up little carrot nubs.

I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.

It's really hard to balance work and being a mother.

They rise in the morning, and they sleep in the dark. And even though nobody's looking, she's falling apart.

You get to a point in relationships where you don't want to push anything, but things need to change, move on, or develop.

The song "No Fairy Tale" tells my story. Going through the hard things leads to a richer life than just trying to make everything perfect, or worse, pretending things are good when they don't feel right. I've done that more than enough times.

I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.

Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in.

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

The smell of roses, my children's bright eyes and smiles, laughing with my husband, walking on the beach, using my hands to do crafts or play guitar, brainstorming, and drinking coffee, really good coffee.

I don't use simple words. I make games and puzzles with my songs.

Don't force things to happen. You can work towards things and keep yourself open to things, people, and opportunities, but you can't and shouldn't try to control everything. Also, if you haven't noticed so far, I think sleep is really important.

One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.

I think a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me, I've always been a kinder, better person awake than sleep-deprived!

I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.

There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships.

My nutritionist always said to eat whatever you want.

When all the stars were falling, they fell from above, and I thought of hate, and I thought of hate, and then I thought of love.

Yeah, well, food is always a part of everything.

I grew up with family who liked to travel and sightsee, so I have this pressure inside me: If I'm in a city and I have enough free time, I'd better go to a museum. I try to see parks, go outside. Or else try to feel really normal like go to Target or a drugstore, or go see a movie.

The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.

You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told.

A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working

The only way to get vegetables at a diner late night is to order the omelette. A feta cheese and broccoli omelette.

Stop fighting. Everyone's a person too. And take care of the Earth, please.

I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.

I don't have a very routine life; the kids' activities, our nightly routines, and morning routines are about as routine as it gets. In the middle of it all - other than my morning coffee, toast, and trying to get 7-8 hours of sleep a night - each day is different.

Summer camp was a place where I felt like myself that wasn't like school. There were no grades, we got to try lots of new things, and I started to play guitar at camp. It was a place for acceptance and learning to be a part of a community, but also learning to be yourself. I want that for all kids, but some kids don't have the opportunity to go to camp. I want to help.

I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y'all want for lunch, and as we're eating lunch, what do y'all want for dinner? It's always about the next meal

I love playing in Japan! It's always like being in the ancient past and the future at the same time. And the fans sing along to every word.

With all the things that you could be, you never could learn how to be me.

You are the treasure custodian, cleaning the moon for me, scouring the sky so the stars would shine bright.

Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and carry luggage around myself because I always have to have 7,000 pairs of shoes. Who cares about sports?

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

I use my cell phone as much as I can - I talk to friends all the time. I'm like 2,000 hours a month. It's crazy

As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.

I want to work on some more complicated baking... and it would be interactive!

I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s.

When I was a kid, for me, the '60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late '60s.

Don't force things to happen.