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" 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? "

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" 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

Day

Children

Music

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't use simple words. I make games and puzzles with my songs. "

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

" 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! "

Lisa Loeb

Always

Glasses

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

" 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 people are always nostalgic for a time about 20 years before they were born. "

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

Lisa Loeb

Baking

Complicated

" 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

Voice

Friend

" 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. "

" 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

Musicians

Myself

" You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Yeah, well, food is always a part of everything. "

" It's really hard to balance work and being a mother. "

" 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! "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "