Jenny Lewis Quotes

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope.

My main thing is I just want to share as much hope and happiness as possible for music. If I can share as many moments and help people believe in themselves... if I can do that, then I'll feel like my job is done.

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

Rock'n'roll saved my soul.

This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

It's not that I was crazy. It's just that I was sad at times because the world was sad at times. When I would perform, it wasn't sad anymore.

All I can do with my music is try and be a light for people who are in a dark time.

As a science fiction and fantasy writer, I used to love writing bleak, grimdark futures full of bleak, grimdark people. But I've found that as the world around me darkens, all I really want to do is grasp for more light.

However dark, however demanding the realities of existence are, artists provide the lift, the light, the ways to make it through. They help us find the joys and delights, the hopes we need for our days and hours. I am grateful for their gifts.

I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.

And what I love about music and art in general is that you can take something so negative or positive - any emotion, no matter how sad or happy - and turn it into art.

I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.

In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.

People across the world are yearning to be connected to stories of hope.

In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.

When the TV version of Annie came on, I was drawn to it. It was the struggle of this poor kid in this environment and how her life changed. It immediately resonated.

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.

You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.