A biography for Jenny Lewishasn’t been written yet.
“I don't feel unlucky in love anymore, and it's not all emo. It's a scary place to be in when you're like: 'What am I supposed to write about now? I don't feel heartbroken, so now what?'”
“I was a big fan of 'Days of Our Lives' growing up.”
“Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.”
“I can't imagine how people will react to my music. For me, it's a really fluid process from one record to the next, but it's really up to the listener.”
“I think you kind of lose the human aspect when you make things too perfect.”
“I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.”
“It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.”
“I can parallel park pretty well - I'm a great driver.”
“I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.'”
“I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?”
“I wouldn't call it a faux pas, but I have about 12 tracksuits. I always travel in a tracksuit. I feel it makes people happy when they see me.”
“I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.”
“For me personally, I just try to prove myself in my work. I'm just trying to get better at what I do, and hopefully that will impact women in music, and hopefully the girls in the crowd will see my up there as a bandleader and think, 'Wow, maybe I can do that one day.'”
“I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.”
“Sometimes things feel hopeless. Not always within my own life - but looking outward, it seems like rough times lie ahead of us. The world seems to be kind of caving in on itself in a lot of ways. But I try to look on the bright side.”
“It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.”
“When I think people like one record more than the other, then someone will surprise me.”
“I didn't know anything about music when I started a band. I barely knew how to play a guitar. I didn't know how to produce records. I learned how to play bass guitar and keyboards in Rilo Kiley. I picked up a lot from my collaborators.”
“I come from a duo, actually, quite literally. My parents are Linda and Eddie, and they had an act in Vegas called 'Love's Way.'”
“When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don't know where to turn musically, being in a band - Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny - the collaborative nature is really exciting.”