Jenny Lewis
Jenny Lewis
Jennifer Diane "Jenny" Lewis is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress. She was the primary vocalist of the indie rock band Rilo Kiley, and has released three solo albums. She performed as part of the duo Jenny & Johnny with boyfriend Johnathan Rice...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth8 January 1976
CityLas Vegas, NV
CountryUnited States of America
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I think a lot of musicians play for the playback. I mean, that's the joy of recording - you want to hear what you've done and what you've contributed - but never listening to that playback kind of removes the intellectual part of making music, and it removes the tendency to be revisionist.
art created period
I think art doesn't have to be created in a period of misery, but it certainly helps.
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When you're in a band, inevitably, someone is siding with someone else, and you're fighting over something that happened in the band five years ago.
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When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.
solo
Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.
music
I write music, really, to make myself feel better.
door possibly shut
I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?
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You can find me at three in the morning in my living room with a glass of wine and really bad '90s trip hop beats blaring from my headphones.
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My true social media passion is making creepy short movies on Instagram.
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My mother had a great vinyl collection, and she was constantly playing female singer-songwriters. I first learned about classic song structures by listening to them, and Laura Nyro particularly stood out. Her voice was outside what you'd usually hear on the radio; that really appealed to me.
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My mother's records were formative for me, but when I became a teenager, I wanted to find songs that she wasn't hip to. She was so hip, though, that I had to go outside rock n' roll - so for about 10 years, I only listened to hip-hop, house and techno.
country music people
I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.
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I think Chris Martin is younger than I am, but when I met him, I felt like I was talking to my father. It's so strange, that feeling when someone is that famous - you assume that they are either older or better.
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When I first started touring, we had a crappy van, and we would all share rooms. So for many years as a grown adult woman, I would share a bed with a bandmate, whether it would be Jimmy Tamborello from the Postal Service or Pierre De Reeder from Rilo Kiley, just a pillow barrier between us sleeping on the same bed.