Lisa Loeb famous quotes

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

#Birthday #Pie #Cake

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
-- Lisa Loeb

#Mother #Memories #Lunch

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

#Trying #Want #Should

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

#Song #Simple #Games

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

#Tv Shows #Names #People

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!
-- Lisa Loeb

#Mom #Sleep #Thinking

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

#Children #Sound #Albums

My nutritionist always said to eat whatever you want.
-- Lisa Loeb

#Want #Said

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

#Night #Order #Vegetables

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

#Kids #Far Away #Born

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

#Song #People #Musician

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

#Mother #Balance #Being A Mother

Yeah, well, food is always a part of everything.
-- Lisa Loeb

#Yeah #Wells

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.
-- Lisa Loeb

#People #Family And Friends #Lots Of Friends

The moon shines for you.
-- Lisa Loeb

#Moon #Expression #Shining

Sometimes you tell the truth like you're pulling taffy.
-- Lisa Loeb

#Expression #Taffy #Sometimes

If we all leap before we crawl, we might fall.
-- Lisa Loeb

#Fall #Expression #Might

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?
-- Lisa Loeb

#Sports #Guitar #Shoes

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

#Education

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

#Education #Home #Ends

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

#Morning #Sex #Fall

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

#Art #Media #Stories

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

#Lonely #Feelings #Low Self Esteem

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

#Next #Certain #Prioritize

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.
-- Lisa Loeb

#Stars #Hate #Fall

I think that I'm throwing but I'm thrown
-- Lisa Loeb

#Thinking #Throwing #Thrown

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.
-- Lisa Loeb

#Mind #And Love #Meat

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.
-- Lisa Loeb

#Mother #Daughter #Art

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

#Daughter #Mother #School

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.
-- Lisa Loeb

#Expectations #Musician #Brown

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.
-- Lisa Loeb

#Thinking #Alaska #Normal

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

#Thinking #Years #People

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

#Brother #Sibling #Mixing

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.
-- Lisa Loeb

#Song #Children #Book

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
-- Lisa Loeb

#Crazy #Phones #Cells

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

#Would Be #Want #Baking

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

#Friendship #Stars #Moon

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.
-- Lisa Loeb

#Song #Writing #Years

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.
-- Lisa Loeb

#Play #Two #Musician

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.
-- Lisa Loeb

#Book #Reading #Guy

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.
-- Lisa Loeb

#Simple #Two #Focus

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
-- Lisa Loeb

#Song #Book #Play

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

#Falling In Love #Leaving #Sometimes

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.
-- Lisa Loeb

#Thinking #Dieting #Ive Learned

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
-- Lisa Loeb

#Song #Band #Records

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.
-- Lisa Loeb

#Jobs #Growing Up #Children