Jenny Lewis Quotes

I don't like to have everything all worked out in my head because there's always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

Nothing's planned. Never say never.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I never want anything to be too predictable.

I don't make plans for my future. I have learned that you cannot predict what will happen.

Things always change and you can't ever say never, because you don't know what is around the corner.

I'm open to making any kind of music, or maybe making no music ever again. That's also an option, always. Who knows what'll happen.

Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

Some projects go as you hope or imagine, and some change or reveal themselves in a different way; it depends.

I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

I'm not a career filmmaker. I just like to do things that I still kind of believe in and because of that you just never know what's going to happen next. It doesn't matter if it's been a good year or a bad year: next year, there's no telling what it will be like.

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.

I try not to plan that too much.

I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.

I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.

I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.