Jewel Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Jewel
I have hundreds and hundreds of songs waiting to get on albums, but I don't know about the three-month radio tours and if I'll be interested in that. I haven't figured it out, but I will definitely be doing music, whether it is independent or with a major record label. — Jewel
My life has been full of struggles - coming from a troubled home, moving out when I was fifteen, ending up homeless by eighteen. The one thing I always knew was being jaded and bitter was equal to letting life win. — Jewel
You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood. — Jewel
Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album. — Jewel
Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality. — Jewel
I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing. — Jewel
My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it. — Jewel
Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines. — Jewel
I love life and I love that about people ... I adore the human experience, I really adore the ... I love the contradictions of people ... I don't mind being sexy and girlish and womanly, and all those things at the same time ... smart and very — Jewel
I used to love reading when I was little, and then it became difficult and I didn't understand why. I thought, what a bummer, my passion all drained out of me. So when I found out I had dyslexia, it was like, oh, that's what it was. — Jewel
We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams. — Jewel
It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more. — Jewel
Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew. — Jewel
For me, success was finding the courage to be true to myself, and holding on to a sense of humor along the way while refining my craft. Sean — Jewel
I don't see the world unless I see it in ink. — Jewel
All through the night
I'll be standing over you
All through the night
I'll be watching over you
And through the bad dreams
I'll be right there,
Baby holding your hand,
Telling you everything is all right.
And when you cry
I'll be right there
Telling you were never
Anything less than beautiful.
So don't worry
I'm your Angel standing by. — Jewel
Music has given me a career. But even if it doesn't become yours it teaches you confidence and allows you to express your creativity. — Jewel
I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15. — Jewel
I believe in liberty and freedom for all. I believe in gay marriage. — Jewel
Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these. — Jewel
Love is a flame neither timid nor tame. — Jewel
I like pressure. If I am not on the edge of failure, I'm not being sufficiently challenged. — Jewel
There is a pretty girl on the face of the magazine and all I see is my dirty hands turning the page. — Jewel
There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself; you know, have fun, take chances. Those bounds. — Jewel
So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents. — Jewel
I am most alive when I let myself be touched by the fingers of life. — Jewel
I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail. — Jewel
I'd sit on logs like pulpitslisten to the sermonof sparrowsand find god in Simplicity,there amongst the dandelionand thorn — Jewel
It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves. — Jewel
I wrote a line in a song once: "We are never broken." I believe that truly. It is a hard-earned belief, and rose out of many years of experiencing the opposite. I believe we forget who we are over time, and in our state of forgetfulness we struggle and employ all kinds of learned behaviors that don't necessarily help us or bring us happiness. Each of us has a self that exists undamaged and whole, from the moment we are born, waiting to be reclaimed. My life has not been about fixing what is broken. It has been about engaging in a loving and tender archaeological dig back to my true self. — Jewel
They seemed disconnected, hollow somehow, deeply withdrawn. — Jewel
Dreams last so long
Even after you're gone
I know you love me
And soon you will see
You were meant for me
And I was meant for you
Go about my business, I'm doing fine
Besides, what would I say if I had you on the line
Same old story, not much to say
Hearts are broken every day
I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead
I try to tell myself it'll be all right
I just shouldn't think anymore tonight — Jewel
I sort of came out at the dawn of the Internet in the mid-90s and I think it helped break my career. I think I was one of the first artists to really benefit from the grassroots swell that can happen online. I don't know if I would have broken out without it. — Jewel
I think being raised spending so much time outdoors was really important - while you're in it, you might not know, but now I think of the things I was thankful for. — Jewel
I learned years later that my gratitude practice actually helped me form new neural pathways. The hippie rituals of positive affirmations are not just baloney. Gratitude doesn't exist only in your mind - you have to feel it in your whole being. Feelings are the shadows of thoughts. When we have negative thoughts, our emotions mirror them with anxiety. You can often see what you are thinking by reverse engineering and studying your feelings. — Jewel
I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do. — Jewel
Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it. — Jewel
Words can crush things that are unseen. — Jewel
True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail. — Jewel
We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America. — Jewel
I think family mealtime is really important. There's a lot of research that shows kids are going to do better in school and have more self-esteem if you can all sit down and eat together. — Jewel
Solutions and technologies exist to provide clean, affordable drinking water anywhere in the world. These solutions will save lives, reduce financial burdens, foster peace, and relieve millions of people from worrying about their next drink of water. — Jewel
All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection. — Jewel
The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision. — Jewel
Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings. — Jewel
sometimes I feel my heart fall to vague depths between words
there are such spaces that I can't help but feel my heart fall between the pregnant pause of all you will not say
and all i can not ask — Jewel
As children, we are taught what I call Emotional English. This is an emotional language we are taught in our homes, and just like our spoken language, the emotional language we speak most fluently as adults is the one we learned as children. What we are taught about interacting emotionally with each other and the world is modeled for us by our families, and is what we will grow up doing. No matter how frustrating , damaging, and frightening it is, we will perpetuate the examples of our parents and family
unless we can learn new ones. The tricky thing is that a person can go to school to learn a new language, we can find classes anywhere, in any town, but how do we learn a new emotional way of relating to our lives, loved ones, and most important, to ourselves? — Jewel
This is the best worst time of my life. — Jewel
I find you get out of people what you put into them. — Jewel
I tend to eat what I want, which probably isn't good. — Jewel
I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state - you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you, and so it's heartbreaking to hear people say snarky things. — Jewel
Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Assemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam. Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes and it will shine - Calling me. For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair. A man who will Kiss the Flame. — Jewel
If you love somebody; You better let it out; Don't hold it back; While you're trying to figure it out; Cause the only real pain a heart can ever know; Is the sorrow of regret; When you don't let your feelings show. So, did you say it, Did you mean it? — Jewel
I will gather myself around my faith,
for light does the darkness most fear. — Jewel
I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a kids album that didn't annoy parents. I used The Beatles 'Rocky Raccoon' as sort of a starting place for my writing. — Jewel
Faith and hope are the antidote. Stay actively involved in manifesting your dreams and the world created will be one we all want to live in. — Jewel
I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced. — Jewel
Support for shelters and transitional living and housing programs is necessary if we are going to change the landscape for homeless boys and girls in America. — Jewel
I have a life that I enjoy; I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home. — Jewel
I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That's where I learned to tell the truth when I was young. — Jewel
So you write to our congressmen
With bleeding pens
Of the sorrow within
And in return they just send
Tickets to the latest Tom Hanks show — Jewel
I try to give myself permission to be a work-in-progress and not have everything figured out at once. It's more manageable and takes some of the pressure off of feeling like I have to have everything right all the time. — Jewel
I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience and love unconditionally. It is easier to love a person with their flaws than to weed through them. I want to love the whole person, not parts; and this is how I want to be loved. — Jewel
I say to myself, sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. — Jewel
Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets. — Jewel
Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower Went up where the homeless had their home. — Jewel
I have been told for so many years that you can't be smart and sexy. I started to think, "Well, why the heck can't you be both?" — Jewel
Excuse me, guess I've mistaken you for somebody else, somebody who gave a damn, somebody more like myself. — Jewel
I was raised in a household where I read Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky and Kant, and I was never taught that my mind was feminine. I'm aware that my body is. — Jewel
this is actualy a poem
we have been called
naive
as if it were a dirty word,
whe have been called
innocent
as though with shame
our cheeks should burn
so
we visit with
the careful idols
of cynisism
to learn to sneer
and pant and walk
so as not to feel the scales
of judgement rub wrongly
but we say
some things must
remain simple
some things must remain
untouched
and pure
lest we all forget
the legacy we begot us
the health of our origins
the poetry of our fundemental selves — Jewel
I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic. — Jewel
I love touring - I don't do it as often as I should. — Jewel
Sharing lets us feel less isolated and puts us on a path of being connected. At the end of the day, that's what we all want. — Jewel
Life in a shelter or on the streets puts homeless kids and youth at a higher risk for physical and sexual assault and abuse, physical illness, including HIV/AIDS — Jewel
I'm a happy mum. I didn't think it was in the cards for me, so I feel very blessed. — Jewel
Once you are successful, there's a very seductive rhythm at work that keeps you wanting to outdo yourself. By the end of 'Spirit' I felt like I didn't want to get into that trap. It almost makes you cartoon-like. — Jewel
If I could tell the world just one thing
It would be that we're all OK
And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful
And useless in times like these
I won't be made useless
I won't be idle with despair
I will gather myself around my faith
For light does the darkness most fear
My hands are small, I know
But they're not yours, they are my own
But they're not yours, they are my own
And I am never broken — Jewel
If someone is willing to help you understand your own worth when you're vulnerable, that's a very touching thing. It makes you want to help other people. — Jewel
We are not in the business of fighting darkness. We are farmers of light. — Jewel
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery, and you shall live a life uncommon. — Jewel
Words can be said easily, but one can't fake actions. — Jewel
Who will save your soul, if you won't save your own? — Jewel
I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort. — Jewel
I know, you love me and soon you will see, you were meant for me and I was meant for you — Jewel
She looked u at me through tear-stained cheeks and stammered, "My dad won't give me a Porsche when I come home if I don;t get all A's." I was a bit stunned. IT was my first encounter with real wealth. I remember looking at her and thinking, Holy shit. Being spoiled is worse abuse that being hit. At least I knew that being hit is wrong, But being spoiled ruins you. — Jewel
Fame was not real. It was all a projection
fame made me a blank canvas that people projected their love, lust, troubles, self-worth, and desire upon. Fame and power do not change us; they amplify us. If we are insecure, we grow more so. If we are addictive, we become a greater addict and insatiable. If we are desirous of truth, we seek it more. If we are generous, we become more so. If we seek to fill holes through dishonest means, we have greater access to do so. Fame and power are masterful teachers. — Jewel
Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise. — Jewel
I'm having a bad day. I am not size six. My legs are not skinny as sticks, and dammit, someone's got to pay. I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself and that my happiness depends on someone else. I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall. You're so shallow. — Jewel
Life is seductive, yet so few allow themselves to be seduced. — Jewel
In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself. — Jewel
I've been writing lullabies since the beginning. I kind of did it for myself to help myself fall asleep when I really worried, like when I was homeless and I'd fall asleep in my car. — Jewel
Your life becomes what you believe. — Jewel
There are a lot of things about fame that are not conducive to being curious. It's been important for me to cloister myself off. — Jewel