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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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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I felt like onstage I have to have a certain amount of anonymity, like, personal anonymity, to feel loose and free. When you're up there with people who've known you for a decade, and you make a bad joke and you hear the cackling behind the drums, it's hard to get lost in the moment.
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Insomnia is a very prevalent issue. It's a women's health issue, and I chose to talk about it because so many people have experienced it to varying degrees. For me, I'm doing great now, but it took a lot of work to figure out how to get back to sleep. I had to change some of my habits. I developed some pretty bad sleep ritual habits.
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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.
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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.
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Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.
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I write music, really, to make myself feel better.
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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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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.
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I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.