Quotes from Jenny Lewis

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

I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?

When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

When you're in a band, inevitably, someone is siding with someone else, and you're fighting over something that happened in the band five years ago.

I learn lessons with every interview I give.

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.

I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.

I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.

It would be nice to create something that's healing rather than slightly creepy and darkly judgmental!

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

Insomnia is a very prevalent issue. It's a women's health issue, and I chose to talk about it because so many people have experienced it to varying degrees. For me, I'm doing great now, but it took a lot of work to figure out how to get back to sleep. I had to change some of my habits. I developed some pretty bad sleep ritual habits.

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.

You wouldn't want to be in a rock band - trust me.

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

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

Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.

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.

I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.

I'm a huge reggae fan. I want to go to Jamaica and make, like, Bob Marley 'One Love' positive songs. That's what the world needs.

The Rilo Kiley song 'A Better Son/Daughter' is my most requested song - especially for people who are at the age I was when I wrote it. It's sort of a mid-twenties lament.

I am in a constant cycle of selling my clothes at Wasteland and buying from Goodwill. Once or twice a year, I go through my closet and donate everything to Goodwill. It feels like I am recycling my fashion.

I'm a control freak with regards to certain aspects. I think you just have to be when you're making stuff in the world. You have to have a clear idea what you want.

I'm an American songwriter, and I write from a very American perspective, and so did the records I grew up listening to.

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