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" We've played everywhere since I started The Licks. We've played arenas, clubs, school cafeterias and bowling alleys. It doesn't matter where the venue is; we're gonna bring you the rock! "

Juliette Lewis

School

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Rock

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" When you say you grew up in Los Angeles, a lot of people think the west side: they think the glitz and all this stuff that I actually had no relationship to growing up. "

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Experience

Live

" For me, the most challenging thing was developing myself as a songwriter and as a performer and as the leader of a band. And I just did it. "

" I don't approach anything I do like an academic. I'm not trained, and I work with intuition a great deal. "

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" My dad instilled in me to naturally question all authority. I don't follow anything blindly. That's religion, cops, doctors, schools, you name it. "

Juliette Lewis

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Cops

" I have a huge fear of crowds. The irony is that my band is a therapeutic exercise. I hurl myself into thousands of people. "

" I walk into a restaurant, and people stare as though I've just landed from another planet. Every time I walk out in public, it's like the alien freak show has arrived. It does have its advantages. I hardly ever get bothered by the paparazzi, probably because of some of the more edgy characters I've played in movies. "

" In my work, I'm always striving to be as honest as possible. "

" Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work. "

" I don't care about labels or anything. "

" I've always been the opposite of mainstream. I march to my own beat. It's the only way I know. "

" I only wear SPF if I'm going to the beach. "

" I'm really into coconut oil for everything. I cook it, eat it, put it in my hair, and use it as body lotion. I put it on my face, too - day cream, night cream, whatever. I love the smell. It reminds me of the beach. I'm not particular on what brand as long as it's organic. "

" I'm always fighting the cup-is-half-empty way of being, versus the cup-is-half-full. I'm always fighting the pessimistic versus the positive. "

" Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz,' 'Hair,' 'Fame,' 'Annie,' all that stuff - that's where my little youthful imagination was. "

" I was scared by social media - just scared of what I might attract. Once I broke onto that thing, because I needed it for my band to tell people about shows, I realized, 99 percent of the time, people are funny, clever, inventive, beautiful. "

" It's always been my dream to have a monster rhythm section that's just all groove and pocket. "

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" I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors. "

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