Lisa Loeb Quotations

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

I always find myself stopping to write down ideas of things I'd like to make from computer hardware items to things new moms need - inventions to share with others to make their lives more fun or interesting or easy.

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

The Lisa Loeb Eyewear line was created to satisfy all of those people who always stop me and ask me where I get my glasses because they want some just like mine!

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

Again, I don't hold it against somebody if they don't know who I am - I don't know who a lot of people are.

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

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

I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don't mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don't like eating big pieces of meat.

I think people are always nostalgic for a time about 20 years before they were born.

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

When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren't glued to computers because they didn't exist, so being active was all we knew.

I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.

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

connect with more people on a larger scale.

And you said that I was naiveAnd I thought that I was strongI thought "hey I can leave, I can leave"But now I know that I was wrong cause I missed youYeah I missed you

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.

I've made music for grownups most of my life as a singer/songwriter - often with my band, Nine Stories - recorded many albums, and 10 years ago I started recording kid's music, too.

I want children to be glued to interactive books that encourage singing and dancing. I feel when kids work together it brings about a different energy.

Although my dad was a doctor, we weren't necessarily a super-artsy family. We were just a classic, traditional family who got to take a lot of piano lessons and became a bunch of musicians.

It's important to learn how to tell a story, ... It can be in a very direct way. It can be in a very poetic way. It can be very personal, and sometimes it can seem like it's very personal.

I've 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 didn't realize what an impact having a No. 1 single would have. It connects me with people of different ages, and I get to travel all over the world.

I decided to do this TV series because what I do as a musician and songwriter is connect to an audience, so why not take that to another level,

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.

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.

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.

There are many different ways to look at a situation, and it's important to look at things the way they are.

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

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.

I have so much joy in my life. I love my husband and kids so much. So much love. I'm also more focused now on spending more time at home and in town instead of going on tour. Because of that nesting, I find that I'm even more into writing and creating.

The time between meeting, and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dweezil and I are going on tour with the band probably starting in the middle of February for a month probably playing a few songs from my new record and then I'll continue on after that tour

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.

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

I walked away to get wisdom, but in the end I just walked home.

In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I put it in perspective.

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

If we all leap before we crawl, we might fall.

I try to get enough sleep and exercise, try not to make mountains out of molehills, and vent a lot. I have a good team to support my work. I also do lots of mundane things, which will center me.

Sometimes you tell the truth like you're pulling taffy.

The moon shines for you.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

My nutritionist always said to eat whatever you want.

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.

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

Too much to ask for may leave me feeling lonely. Too little leaves me nothing.

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. All this makes me come alive.

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.

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

Don't force things to happen.

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.

If you haven't noticed so far, I think sleep is really important.