Creativity Quote by Lisa Loeb

A playful invitation to reject false choices, the line uses dessert to question how easily we accept either-or frames. Cake or pie? Why not both. The point is not gluttony but permission to expand the menu of possibilities, to ask, negotiate, and imagine outcomes that do not fit a narrow script. It encourages an abundance mindset, the belief that creative solutions are available if we resist the first limiting premise.

That sensibility suits Lisa Loeb, the singer-songwriter who broke through with Stay (I Missed You) in 1994, becoming the first artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 without a recording contract. Her career has often been a both-and story: mainstream success and indie roots, adult contemporary albums and acclaimed childrens music, performer and entrepreneur. The dessert joke doubles as a compact philosophy of making space for multiple identities and paths rather than choosing a single lane because the industry, or habit, says you should.

There is also a gentle lesson in self-advocacy. Many people, and women in particular, are socialized to be low-maintenance, to take what is offered without fuss. Saying cake and pie models the small courage of naming what you actually want. It is not a demand; it is an opening. If the host cannot oblige, perhaps there are smaller slices, a shared plate, or another option that honors the spirit of the request. Asking often reveals flexibility that would have remained hidden behind the false dilemma.

The humor keeps the idea generous rather than grasping. It invites curiosity and play: combine flavors, split the portions, invent hyphenated solutions in life as in dessert. Beyond the table, it becomes a habit of mind. When confronted with a binary, look for the third path, or the blend. Design your choices instead of accepting defaults. Savoring both cake and pie is a metaphor for savoring the range of experience available when we expand the question itself.