Lisa Loeb
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.Collection: Travel
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.Collection: Computers
Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.Collection: Learning
When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?Collection: Birthday
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.Collection: Birthday
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.Collection: Humor
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 have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.
I don't use simple words. I make games and puzzles with my songs.
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.
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.
I want to work on some more complicated baking... and it would be interactive!
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.
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 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.
My nutritionist always said to eat whatever you want.
You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Yeah, well, food is always a part of everything.
The only way to get vegetables at a diner late night is to order the omelette. A feta cheese and broccoli omelette.
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.
I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.
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.
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.
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.
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'm old-school. I want to be there to drop off my daughter at school and pick her up.
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!
It's really hard to balance work and being a mother.
As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.
I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s.
When I was a kid, for me, the '60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late '60s.
I think people are always nostalgic for a time about 20 years before they were born.
The time between meeting, and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love.Collection: Falling In Love
Don't force things to happen.Collection: Force
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 mealCollection: Mother
You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told.Collection: Art
Too much to ask for may leave me feeling lonely. Too little leaves me nothing.Collection: Lonely
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.Collection: Husband
You get to a point in relationships where you don't want to push anything, but things need to change, move on, or develop.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Beach