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.
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 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.
I grew up with family who liked to travel and sightsee, so I have this pressure inside me: If I'm in a city and I have enough free time, I'd better go to a museum. I try to see parks, go outside. Or else try to feel really normal like go to Target or a drugstore, or go see a movie.
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.
I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.
I make sure to sleep eight hours, and I'm much better about eating, because I'm not standing in front of my pantry. I go to the market and pick up little carrot nubs.
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 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.
I've learned from dieting and not dieting that literally the thing that works best for me is that if I think of it, I better go ahead and have it.
It was really exciting to show some restraint and finish the record without putting too many instruments on all the tracks.
My nutritionist always said to eat whatever you want.
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.
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 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.
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.
When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?
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.
You get to a point in relationships where you don't want to push anything, but things need to change, move on, or develop.
You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.
Lisa reunited with her old friend and college roomie, Elizabeth Mitchell to make a children's music album titled Catch the Moon. The music is a mixture of old traditional favorites and new originals.
Lisa's track 'We Could Still be Together' was included on the soundtrack for Legally Blonde.
Lisa took a five year break from recording, and spent time with then-boyfriend Dweezil Zappa, traveling. She resurfaced in 2002 with her third offering and first album with A&M records, titled Cake and Pie. She co-produced it and worked with a list of impressive artists, including Vince Gill, Sawyer Brown, Waylon Jennings, Dweezil Zappa, and The Indigo Girls.
Lisa is a vegetarian with a love of gourmet foods and wines.
Lisa signed with Geffen Records in 1994, and they re-teamed her with former manager Juan Patino.
Lisa's big break happened when her good friend and neighbor, Ethan Hawke passed a casette of her music on to the director of the movie he was starring in. The director (Ben Stiller) took a liking to 'Stay' and put it onto the Reality Bites soundtrack.
Lisa had developed a large fan following from her solo performances on the New York coffee house circuit. She had teamed up with a new producer, longtime boyfriend Juan Patino to release an audio casette of her acoustic performances, called The Purple Tape only sold at her live shows.
Lisa and Elizabeth Mitchell released an album called Liz and Lisa before embarking upon their careers separately.
Lisa studied piano as a child, but later switched her interests and lessons to guitar.
Her glasses aren't a fashion accessory. She told Seventeen magazine that "if you can't see and you can't wear contacts, then you wear glasses. My glasses are a normal and real part of me. I would be putting on an act if I DIDN'T wear them."
Lisa's album The Very Best of Lisa Loeb was released January 24, 2006.
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