Quotes from Jenny Lewis

I love kids, but there's always time for them later. You can always adopt; you can have a puppy. The songs are my children.

When I'm not working is when I tend to freak out a bit. It's hard for me to just stay home.

You can find me at three in the morning in my living room with a glass of wine and really bad '90s trip hop beats blaring from my headphones.

I scored one film by myself, which was the hardest thing I think I've ever done.

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.

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.

I'm a pretty terrible rapper. I always have been.

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.

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.

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.

I have a great work ethic - from watching Lucille Ball, not necessarily my own family.

I think the idea of opening up for a massive band is always better than actually doing it, and having your name on the ticket means more than the actual set.

I think life is the most important thing and you have to live that first and then you're art comes second.

I've always tried to get around writing love songs, I guess because I've always had a hard time saying, 'I love you.'

I'm typically not a heels person.

I have that working-class show-business blood coursing through my veins.

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

I am a huge hip-hop fan, and growing up, I only listened to hip-hop, so I dressed accordingly.

I am a child of digital generation. I have done most of the records with Rilo Kiley on computers, on Pro Tools or other digital programs.

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

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.'

I think I have a hard time expressing myself in my relationships. I use songs to tell people how I'm feeling. If I can't say 'I love you,' I'll write a song about it and hope that the person figures it out.

It's interesting how songs can evolve. Sometimes I'll write a song that feels relevant in the moment, but four years later, I don't want to sing it anymore. Then something will happen in my life, and the song becomes relevant again.

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.