Lisa Loeb Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

My nutritionist always said to eat whatever you want.

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.

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

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

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

I love albums that have guest performers that the audience will be happy to hear. It's really a bonus!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The moon shines for you.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Don't force things to happen.

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

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

Some of us hover when we weep for the other who wasdying since the day they were born.