Certainly, we all wonder what is beyond, and when you lose a loved one, I think part of the grieving process includes where that person might have gone or if you'll ever see them again. I think it forces you to look up to the sky, to the cosmos.
When I think people like one record more than the other, then someone will surprise me.
Rock n' roll is a pretty fun job.
Sometimes people come to my shows and think I'm a Christian artist, and they put their hands up in the air, like they do. But first of all, I'm a Jewish girl from the Valley, and I'm from Los Angeles. It's funny to be misinterpreted.
I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.
Songs are really interesting in that way. Sometimes, they grow with you. Sometimes, you outgrow them.
There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.
I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can't relate to the music or the lyrics.
I like babies, but not in the front row. I don't want to sing directly to a baby.
Losing your parent is unlike anything.
I'm obsessed with old rotary phones.
I can parallel park pretty well - I'm a great driver.
As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.
I love 'Wowee Zowee.' That was the first Pavement record I bought.
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.'
In the past, like for the last Rilo Kiley record, 'Under the Blacklight,' I wore exclusively hot pants because the themes in that record were the underbelly of Los Angeles.
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 am a huge hip-hop fan, and growing up, I only listened to hip-hop, so I dressed accordingly.
If you're a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write - to finish the poem, as they say.
Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.
