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" It's really hard to balance work and being a mother. "
Lisa Loeb
Hard
Balance
Being
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Children
" 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. "
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Trying
Way
" 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. "
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Me
" As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs. "
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" When I was a kid, for me, the '60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late '60s. "
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Born
" 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. "
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Me
" When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie? "
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Cake
" I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds. "
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You
Freedom
" 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. "
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Life
Family
Friends And Family
" The only way to get vegetables at a diner late night is to order the omelette. A feta cheese and broccoli omelette. "
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Cheese
Vegetables
Way
" I'm old-school. I want to be there to drop off my daughter at school and pick her up. "
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Drop
School
Daughter
" 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. "
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Against
People
Know
" 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. "
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Mind
College
Children
" 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. "
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Day
Children
Music
" 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. "
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Me
Musicians
Myself
" I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s. "
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Show
" My nutritionist always said to eat whatever you want. "
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Want
" 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! "
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" 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. "
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Success
Songs
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Texas
" 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. "
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Phone
Crazy
" 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. "
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" I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer. "
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" 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! "
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