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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. By Jewel Gather Sea Shore Love Wild

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together. By Jewel Fame Popularity Sales People Huge

We all should choose our friends carefully. I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else, because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself. If you think like that, you surround yourself with other people who are willing to tell you who you are, which are usually judgmental people ... we should really surround ourselves with the ones that adore us and believe in the highest of us. By Jewel Carefully Choose Friends Surround People

You always feel better when you sing. Music touches people's hearts. You know, it doesn't go through your mental capacity, it just moves you and it will let you cry. It's worth it doing a show and when you touch a crowd and move yourself at the same By Jewel Sing Feel Music Hearts Touches

If I could tell the world just one thingIt would be that we're all OKAnd not to worry 'cause worry is wastefulAnd useless in times like theseI won't be made uselessI won't be idle with despairI will gather myself around my faithFor light does the darkness most fearMy hands are small, I knowBut they're not yours, they are my ownBut they're not yours, they are my ownAnd I am never broken By Jewel Worry Small Broken World Thingit

Reality wins, and I'd rather see the truth than stay in love with a fantasy. By Jewel Reality Wins Fantasy Truth Stay

I loved to observe people.. I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: You don't outrun pain.. I saw men and women in those barrooms all trying to outrun something, some pain in their life- and man, they had pain... I saw them all trying to bury that pain in booze, sex, drugs, anger, and I saw it all before I was able to indulge in many of those behaviors myself. I saw that no one outran their suffering; they only piled new pain upon their original pain.. I saw the pain pile up into insurmountable mountains, and I saw the price people paid who buried all that pain, and along with it their hope, joy, and chance at happiness. All because they were trying to outrun the pain rather than walk through it and heal. By Jewel Pain Outrun People Loved Observe

You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable. By Jewel Thoughts Intolerable Ally Difficult Time

Excuse me, guess I've mistaken you for somebody else, somebody who gave a damn, somebody more like myself. By Jewel Excuse Guess Damn Mistaken Gave

I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end up with the original pain, as well as new pain added on top of it from the tactics you used trying to avoid it in the first place. It's best to take a deep breath, bolster yourself, and walk through it. By Jewel Pain Grew Barsinging Kinds People

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. By Jewel Turning Record Atlantic Life Reflect

Well in case you failed to notice, In case you failed to see, This is my heart bleeding before you, This is me down on my knees These foolish games are tearing me apart Your thoughtless words are breaking my heart You're breaking my heart By Jewel Heart Case Failed Breaking Notice

All through the nightI'll be standing over youAll through the nightI'll be watching over youAnd through the bad dreamsI'll be right there,Baby holding your hand,Telling you everything is all right.And when you cryI'll be right thereTelling you were neverAnything less than beautiful.So don't worryI'm your Angel standing by. By Jewel Nighti Angel Standing Youall Watching

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. By Jewel Day Bad Size Sticks Dammit

Words can be said easily, but one can't fake actions. By Jewel Words Easily Actions Fake

At school, at home, in bars, I was an emotional contortionist, alternating between awkward self-aggrandizing and trying to win favor so as to fit in. When I wrote, I let myself be dead honest, flaws and all. But I was myself, I felt real. I went inside myself when a pen was in my hand and enjoyed that space in there. By Jewel School Home Bars Contortionist Alternating

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 By Jewel Heart Feel Fall Vague Depths

Being idolized and being torn down felt oddly similar. They both made me feel alone.Friendship and trust should be earned, and when you're famous, people seem to want to give them to you whether you've earned them or not, and it felt dishonest to me. 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. By Jewel Fame Similar Felt Idolized Torn

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. By Jewel Silence Underestimate Dreams Create Spend

I'm a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I'm very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times I'm completely goofy and girlie. So, I like my songs to cover all my moods. By Jewel Gemini Moods Lot Pensive Girlie

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. By Jewel Enjoy Icing Life Things Worth

A soul cannot be broken. It is not a teacup. If you have suffered abuse of any kind, know that perfection exists untarnished within you. By Jewel Broken Soul Teacup Kind Suffered

If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique. By Jewel Spears Britney Dollars Song Write

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. By Jewel Popular Magazines Girls Felt Amazing

Something my life has taught me is not to see things in black and white. People are neither all good nor all bad. By Jewel White Life Taught Things Black

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. By Jewel Alaska Product State Things Love

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. By Jewel Love Reading Difficult Understand Thought

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. By Jewel Struggles Coming Home Moving Fifteen

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. By Jewel Lend Freedom Voices Sounds Longer

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. By Jewel Baby Album Inspired Pregnant Wrote

I love to be alone with life. I love to study simple things: the light as it filters in a window; the music of a room full of people chatting; a horizon. By Jewel Love Life Things Window Chatting

Dreams last so longEven after you're goneI know you love meAnd soon you will seeYou were meant for meAnd I was meant for youGo about my business, I'm doing fineBesides, what would I say if I had you on the lineSame old story, not much to sayHearts are broken every dayI'm half alive but I feel mostly deadI try to tell myself it'll be all rightI just shouldn't think anymore tonight By Jewel Meant Meand Dreams Business Finebesides

I was thinking that I might fly today. Just to disprove all the things you say ... please be careful with me, I'm sensitive, and I'd like to stay that way. By Jewel Today Thinking Fly Disprove Things

Never before was it as incumbent upon every members to restate loyalty and exemplify fraternal obligation by consistent life and unimpeachable character. But these must be reinforced by a growing consciousness of the responsibilities that Alpha Phi Alpha faces in the world today, where, if ever the problems which beset us are to be solved and a way of deliverance discovered, it must be by the application of those principles upon which we are founded. By Jewel Character Alpha Incumbent Members Restate

I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: You don't outrun pain. By Jewel Pain Watched Love Life Play

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. By Jewel Kant Nietzsche Dostoyevsky Feminine Raised

Reality is what you believe it to be. It's what you put your thought and energy into, because your hands physically manifest thought. So your world becomes what you feel and what you think. By Jewel Reality Thought Put Energy Hands

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. By Jewel Faith Antidote Hope Stay Actively

Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings. By Jewel Writing Paramount Privacy Deepest Darkest

I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do. By Jewel Songwriter Fun Writing Day Homeless

We are each others angels in the way that we answer each others prayers and we can also make each others lives miserable. By Jewel Miserable Angels Answer Prayers Make

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? By Jewel Emotional English Taught Children Language

I've always toured solo acoustic. By Jewel Acoustic Toured Solo

The truth is that no one can keep you captive. No one can keep you unhappy. No one can keep you abused. Our lives rise to the level we accept. I do believe we can rise from the screaming blood of our losses, of extreme pain, physically debilitating emotion, psychological neglect, and apathy, and not merely survive, but thrive. We do not need to let our histories or our losses define us except in the way we choose. We can use them as fuel to create real depth, beauty, connectedness, and compassion in our lives. Our stories can make us exceptional people, not damaged ones. If we choose to be truthful with ourselves. And if we choose to digest and release the pain rather than try to avoid it. This is how pain accumulates and creates more pain, leading to neurosis, pathology, and brittleness of spirit. By Jewel Choose Pain Captive Truth Lives

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. By Jewel Fame Real Power Seek Greater

Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these. By Jewel Worry Wasteful Useless Times

Clean water is a necessity that we can no longer take for granted. Each year more people die of water related diseases than any other cause of death on this planet. With a higher rate of suffering and mortality than diabetes, cancer, high cholesterol, or war; or any two combined for that matter! An entire economy is growing around water. Those without money are suffering the most and risk severe illness from contaminated sources By Jewel Clean Granted Water Necessity Longer

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. By Jewel Love Simple Person Thinking Trust

But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty Someday we will become what we see By Jewel Someday Surrounded Beauty

Informed optimism is different from a willful ignorance that simply wishes not to see the bad in the world. Seeing the truth and choosing every day to see it, letting life break your heart but doing something about it took courage. It was not about hiding your head in the sand but rather digging in, accepting the challenges, and doing the hard work it takes not just to complain about a problem but to be the solution. By Jewel Informed World Optimism Willful Ignorance

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. By Jewel Wrote Line Song Broken Belief

Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality. By Jewel Beauty Love Immortality Achieve

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. By Jewel Theme Life Love Great Recurring

Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate. By Jewel Make Hard Compassionate Times Bitter

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? By Jewel Back Regret Show Love Hold

It was hard to bear your soul while someone was talking to their friend about a new sweater they bought. By Jewel Bought Hard Bear Soul Talking

I'm somebody who, as a child, had a lot of insecurity about stable housing, where I was going to be living, if I was going to have a roof over my head, all those types of things. And I know the impact it can have on you psychologically and emotionally. By Jewel Child Housing Living Head Things

My intention for my life is to stay centered, and from that intention come my priorities: my son, my family, my job, my self. That then informs what kind of work I can take on. It's a balancing act, but a fun one. By Jewel Intention Centered Priorities Son Family

Greatness is never achieved by trying to imitate the greatness of another. Greatness is chipping away at all that does not belong to you and then expressing yourself so truly that others can't help but recognize it. By Jewel Greatness Achieved Imitate Chipping Belong

Don't worry mother, it'll be alrightAnd don't worry sister, say your prayers and sleep rightIt'll be fine lover of mineIt'll be just fineLend your voices only to sounds of freedomNo longer lend you strength to that which you wish to be free fromFill your lives with love and braveryAnd you shall lead a live uncommon By Jewel Worry Mother Sister Uncommon Alrightand

Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon. By Jewel Live Uncommon Life Love Bravery

Unfelt feelings don't cease to exist; they stay bottled up in our minds and our bodies. They dissipate when given expression. A heart can break only if it is closed - if it remains open there is nothing to break. By Jewel Unfelt Exist Bodies Feelings Cease

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to. By Jewel Poetry Kids Wellcrafted Obtuse Hard

One man came up to me at a taco stand and said, "I have no idea who you are, but I can see everyone is staring at you, so you must be somebody. I just wanted to tell you that you are not that special. You're no more special than me." I looked at him with a mouth full of food and managed to say, "Thanks. I agree," and promptly asked the waitress for a to go box. By Jewel Man Taco Stand Idea Staring

Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire. By Jewel Whimsy Admire Favorite Poets Tremendous

We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in By Jewel Desire Demand Happiness Fight Wrestle

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. By Jewel Pathways Learned Years Practice Helped

It's pointless to focus on others, as we can only control ourselves. I set a high bar and then it is my own private race. No one knows I'm winning or losing but me. By Jewel Pointless Focus Control Race Set

Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by. By Jewel Life Engaged Moments Develop Poet

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 By Jewel Aids Hiv Physical Life Abuse

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting. By Jewel Spend Time Knowing Reacting

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. By Jewel Hundreds Albums Songs Waiting Threemonth

I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,' By Jewel Record Poetry Thought Love Signed

Betrayal converts our innocence to wisdom if we can let go of pain, bitterness, and fear and create enough self-love and safety for ourselves to allow it to do so. By Jewel Bitterness Betrayal Pain Converts Innocence

There is a pretty girl on the face of the magazine and all I see is my dirty hands turning the page. By Jewel Page Pretty Girl Face Magazine

Maybe I could have loved you better. Maybe you should have loved me more. Maybe our hearts were just next in line. Maybe everything breaks sometime. By Jewel Loved Line Hearts Breaks

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. By Jewel Give Permission Figured Time Manageable

I have a two-year-old boy. Being his mom feels like I have a present I get to spend the rest of my life opening. By Jewel Boy Opening Mom Feels Present

My hands are small, but they're not yours, they are my own ... I am never broken. By Jewel Small Hands Broken

My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it. By Jewel Intact Goal Spirit Happen Worth

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. By Jewel Beginning Writing Lullabies Fall Asleep

We'll fight, not out of spite For someone must stand up for what's right 'Cause where there's a man who has no voice There ours shall go singing My hands are small I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own I am never broken In the end only kindness matters In the end only kindness matters By Jewel End Kindness Matters Fight Spite

I was so lucky to be raised believing in some part of myself - believing that if I put my mind to something, I should be able to figure it out. My By Jewel Believing Lucky Raised Part Put

My fans get passionate about certain songs. By Jewel Songs Fans Passionate

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. By Jewel Porsche Stammered Don Looked Tearstained

I will gather myself around my faith,for light does the darkness most fear. By Jewel Fear Gather Faithfor Light Darkness

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. By Jewel Art Life Great Work Balanced

I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By' ... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed. By Jewel Angels Standing Song Basically Wrote

I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance. By Jewel Haggard Loretta Lynn Joni Mitchell

Carrying anger with you is like lighting your own house on fire to get rid of rats. The rats run to safety while you burn yourself down. Forgive. Let go. Heal. By Jewel Carrying Rats Anger Lighting House

So you write to our congressmenWith bleeding pensOf the sorrow withinAnd in return they just sendTickets to the latest Tom Hanks show By Jewel Tom Hanks Show Write Congressmenwith

There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself; you know, have fun, take chances. Those bounds. By Jewel Fun Chances Wrong Make Kinder

We really become one - we might wear different clothes or have different sexual preferences or lifestyles than the person next to us, but really those are just details. The person inside is looking for the same thing as their neighbor - freedom, expression, acceptance, love. By Jewel Details Person Wear Clothes Sexual

I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really amazing writers. It is a fantastic creative outlet and such an amazing teaching tool. The thing I love about kids, too, is it is so imaginative and poetic. By Jewel Books Children Write Love Amazing

The chief significance of Alpha Phi Alpha lies in its purpose to stimulate, develop, and cement an intelligent, trained leadership in the unending fight for freedom, equality and fraternity. Our task is endless. By Jewel Alpha Develop Phi Stimulate Intelligent

And believing that we are broken is the same as being broken. It means we experience ourselves that way. That perception shapes our reality. It is an illusion we must strive to avoid, as great misery comes from such a belief. By Jewel Broken Believing Reality Experience Avoid

My innocence is not lost - it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call "breaking" is the pain that comes from resisting the truth. Life broke parts of me that needed to fall away for me to live an open and truthful life. By Jewel Lost Wisdom Innocence Converted Breaking

The things you fear are undefeatablenot by their nature but by your approach By Jewel Approach Things Fear Undefeatablenot Nature

I know, you love me and soon you will see, you were meant for me and I was meant for you By Jewel Meant Love

When we're children we're told love is going to be great: Just fall in love, the rest will take care of itself - and then we fall in love and we realize, Okay, this is actually really, really hard work. This guy doesn't just tell me I'm great every day, you know? By Jewel Love Fall Realize Work Great

My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer. By Jewel Rest Work Husband Good Balance

The stealing began again with carrots, which apparently are the gateway vegetable, because soon it led to all manner of produce theft. By Jewel Carrots Vegetable Theft Stealing Began

I was Renee Zellweger's fat doppelganger. If she ever played in a movie where she needed to be fat, apparently I could be her stunt double. By Jewel Renee Zellweger Doppelganger Fat Apparently

Everything is temporary if you give it enough time ... By Jewel Time Temporary Give

I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead. By Jewel Dead Half Alive Feel

I'm a happy mum. I didn't think it was in the cards for me, so I feel very blessed. By Jewel Mum Happy Blessed Cards Feel

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. By Jewel Vulnerable Thing Understand Worth Touching

Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower Went up where the homeless had their home. By Jewel Day Dollar War Home Tower

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 By Jewel Love People Adore Life Experience

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. By Jewel Important Raised Spending Time Outdoors

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave. By Jewel People Follow Integrity Brave Encourage

Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good practical understanding of the salient factors involved in the Negro's problem, and which a membership upwards of eight thousand men, should be able to take into their hands the leadership in the Negro's struggle for status. By Jewel Negro Alpha Fraternities Phi American

Your life becomes what you believe. By Jewel Life

You have to realize: OK, I don't know how to solve a political problem, I don't know how to solve the pollution problem ... all I know is in my own life, I need to figure out some sense of purpose, I need to figure out how to be happy ... and I'm willing. By Jewel Problem Solve Realize Figure Political

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. By Jewel Bravely Love Live Courageous Lose

I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That's where I learned to tell the truth when I was young. By Jewel Write Personally Feel Vulnerable Young

For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom. By Jewel Mom Enjoying Rich Famous Good

My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty. By Jewel Producer Pretty Record Frustrating Lot

I am most alive when I let myself be touched by the fingers of life. By Jewel Life Alive Touched Fingers

Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise. By Jewel Band Improvise Free

I did not write love songs as a sixteen-year-old. I did not write about crushes or about mean girls. I wrote about my life - about the injustices and inequities and the search for answers and self-responsibility. By Jewel Write Love Songs Girls Crushes

Hatred is hurt masquerading-it is an energy used to fool someone into thinking they are frightening when in truth they are frightened. By Jewel Hatred Frightened Hurt Masqueradingit Energy

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. By Jewel Curious Lot Things Fame Conducive

You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it. By Jewel

I say to myself, sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. By Jewel Tide Back

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. By Jewel Suit Strong Studio Language Live

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. By Jewel America Support Shelters Transitional Living

To shut down the ability to feel pain means you shut down all emotions, joy included. It makes our hearts feel small, it robs us of our joy, and really keeps us no safer. By Jewel Shut Emotions Included Feel Joy

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. By Jewel True Cynics Kill Posers Fail

I guess I'm a Gemini through and through, but I'm mercurial. I get bored doing the same things. By Jewel Gemini Mercurial Guess Things Bored

I've been performing on stage since I was six years old. By Jewel Performing Stage Years

A good love is delicious, you can't get enough too soon. By Jewel Delicious Good Love

I get really bored if I don't have more than one thing going on. By Jewel Bored Thing

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. By Jewel Clean Affordable World Solutions Water

I will shrink myself no longer to make any human feel secure By Jewel Secure Shrink Longer Make Human

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?" By Jewel Sexy Told Years Smart Started

Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it. By Jewel Lots People Public Housing Great

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. By Jewel Completely Part Natural World Reminds

What I know about street outreach is that it is essential to dealing with the issue of youth homelessness. By Jewel Homelessness Street Outreach Essential Dealing

We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America. By Jewel America Work End Youth Homelessness

When you're standing in deep waterAnd you're bailing yourself out with a strawAnd when you're drowning in deep waterAnd you wake up making love to a wallWell it's these little time that help to remindIt's nothing without love, love, love By Jewel Deep Waterand Love Standing Bailing

I realized that happiness was not some bird that landed on your shoulder by accident, but was a skill that was taught, or not taught, in certain houses and families. After By Jewel Taught Accident Families Realized Happiness

I have always been a workaholic. By Jewel Workaholic

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. By Jewel San Diego Started Sing Homeless

What we call human nature, is actually human habit. By Jewel Nature Habit Human Call

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. By Jewel Successful Spirit Seductive Rhythm Work

An artist's most valuable asset is individuality. By Jewel Individuality Artist Valuable Asset

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. By Jewel Time Happiness Forget State Forgetfulness

The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear. By Jewel Hopelessness Loneliness Vulnerability Sharing Fear

I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail. By Jewel Cooking Love Shows Creating Extraordinary

What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place. By Jewel People Including Great Music Kinds

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself. By Jewel Writing Good Step Goal Knowing

Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality. By Jewel Telling Quality Truth Trust Great

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers. By Jewel Hair Wear Sneakers Generally Messy

We've made houses for hatred. It's time we made a place where people's souls may be seen and made safe. By Jewel Made Hatred Houses Safe Time

Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist. By Jewel Amazingly Industry Sort Anomaly Music

Audiences don't care if you sing correctly. They care if they feel something. If they don't, they forget you. Emotional honesty creates loyalty and a lifelong connection above all else. By Jewel Care Audiences Correctly Sing Feel

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 By Jewel Success Craft Finding Courage True

In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself. By Jewel Silence Hear Create

Its just an inch from me to you, depending on what map you use. By Jewel Depending Inch Map

This is the best worst time of my life. By Jewel Life Worst Time

In the end only kindness matters. By Jewel Matters End Kindness

Only kindness matters. We are God's hands. By Jewel Matters Kindness God Hands

I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I've become. By Jewel Goodness Wanted Honest Writer Show

Words can crush things that are unseen. By Jewel Words Unseen Crush Things

Sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. In times of severe distress, we tend to get tunnel vision and think this feeling will last forever. It will not. By Jewel Tide Distress Forever Back Times

I enjoy hard work; I love setting goals and achieving them. By Jewel Work Enjoy Hard Love Setting

It's important to cultivate a tolerance and patience with uncomfortable feelings. It's best to feel them. By Jewel Feelings Important Cultivate Tolerance Patience

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours. By Jewel Professor Hours Classic Absentminded Focused

Love is a flame neither timid nor tame. By Jewel Love Tame Flame Timid

I'm not a partygoer. By Jewel Partygoer

Who will save your soul, if you won't save your own? By Jewel Save Soul

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink. By Jewel Ink World

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. By Jewel Knew Homeless Kids Streets Forced

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. By Jewel Internet Career Sort Dawn Helped

If I'm a phenomenon, it makes me feel like I have no purpose. By Jewel Phenomenon Purpose Makes Feel

The truest treasure is a soul who believes in its own existence By Jewel Existence Truest Treasure Soul

I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place. By Jewel Place Sneaking Suspicion Religions Lead

We must demand more not from each other, but more from ourselves By Jewel Demand

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. By Jewel Garden Water Point Decide Career

Meditation helped me to access the same thing my writing did: my intelligence and my instincts beyond the turmoil that inhabited the forefront of my mind. By Jewel Meditation Mind Helped Access Thing

I don't exist without writing. By Jewel Writing Exist

If I want a fucked with HEA, I'll go outside and talk to people. By Jewel Hea People Fucked Talk

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents. By Jewel Generation Parents Disillusionment

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15. By Jewel Workhorse Supporting

I'd rather see the world from a different angle. By Jewel Angle World

We are not in the business of fighting darkness. We are farmers of light. By Jewel Darkness Business Fighting Light Farmers

Cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer. There's nothing fluffy about optimism. By Jewel Cynicism Smarter Safer Optimism Fluffy

The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision. By Jewel Vision Writers Respect Undying Commitment

We are loved beyond our ability to comprehend. By Jewel Comprehend Loved Ability

I'm not a wild and crazy person. By Jewel Person Wild Crazy

I'd sit on logs like pulpitslisten to the sermonof sparrowsand find god in Simplicity,there amongst the dandelionand thorn By Jewel Simplicitythere Thorn Sit Logs Pulpitslisten

I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music. By Jewel Art Music Hope Life Ends

The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference. By Jewel Indifference Savages Feel Flesh Burn

I'm trying to be in the moment and really enjoy my pregnancy. I feel really lucky. By Jewel Pregnancy Moment Enjoy Lucky Feel

I moved out of home when I was 15. By Jewel Moved Home

All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection. By Jewel Change Things Cultivate Perfection Flexibility

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time. By Jewel Time Guess Grace Refinement Soul

Hurt people can become hurtful, By Jewel Hurt Hurtful People

I love being in a band. By Jewel Band Love

You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood. By Jewel Night Show Crowd Suit Mood

Nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend. By Jewel Nature Bend Funny Breaking

I was raised really poor and so was my husband. By Jewel Husband Raised Poor

I like pressure. If I am not on the edge of failure, I'm not being sufficiently challenged. By Jewel Pressure Failure Challenged Edge Sufficiently

I make a living with a song, and I feel honored to do something I love and believe in. By Jewel Song Make Living Feel Honored

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. By Jewel Sharing Connected Feel Isolated Puts

I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed. By Jewel Changed Feel Radio Formats

Your hands already know too much. By Jewel Hands

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort. By Jewel Sort Found Comfort Overly Organized

It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves. By Jewel Fun Young Kids Find Excellence

No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. By Jewel Longer Lend Strength Free

I find you get out of people what you put into them. By Jewel Find People Put

Cynicism is for lightweights. By Jewel Cynicism Lightweights

Suffering is everywhere. Don't ever think it isn't. So are miracles. Don't ever think they aren't. By Jewel Suffering Miracles

Life is seductive, yet so few allow themselves to be seduced. By Jewel Life Seductive Seduced

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. By Jewel Music Career Creativity Teaches Confidence

People living their lives for you on TV; They say they're better than you, and you agree. By Jewel People Agree Living Lives

I love touring - I don't do it as often as I should. By Jewel Touring Love

They seemed disconnected, hollow somehow, deeply withdrawn. By Jewel Disconnected Hollow Deeply Withdrawn

We all will be Christed when we hear ourselves say: We are that to which we pray By Jewel Christed Pray Hear

Show me one man who knows his own heart, to him I shall belong. By Jewel Show Heart Belong Man

It's been too many nights of being with to now be suddenly without. By Jewel Nights Suddenly

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip. By Jewel Rooms Love Playing Big Trip

I love vulnerability. It's what keeps me soft and from becoming emotionally calcified. By Jewel Vulnerability Love Calcified Soft Emotionally

I tend to eat what I want, which probably isn't good. By Jewel Good Tend Eat

I'm fairly specific about what I like to wear and looks are important to me, just like they are to everybody. By Jewel Fairly Specific Wear Important

I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have. By Jewel Theory Bad Told Ideal

Optimisn is a choice. Cynicism isnt smarter - it's just safer. By Jewel Optimisn Choice Cynicism Smarter Safer

I developed a loyal following. No one knew I was homeless. By Jewel Developed Loyal Homeless Knew

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit. By Jewel Habit Human Nature Actuality

I believe in liberty and freedom for all. I believe in gay marriage. By Jewel Liberty Freedom Marriage Gay

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. By Jewel Important Family Mealtime Lot Research

I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do. By Jewel Bars Grew Live Tours Playing

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend. By Jewel Forgiveness Mend Needle

The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist. By Jewel Night Setlist Show Write