Jewel Quotes - Interviews - Poems
�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.�
�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.�
�The things you fear are undefeatable,Not by their nature, but by your approach.�
"The cosmos gives me exactly what I need. Whatever comes to me is appropriate and I will learn from it."
(about her teenage style)
"We were just really poor, so I dressed like a punk rocker. My family shopped at the Salvation Army before that was the cool thing to do. Most of my friends wore pastel-colored jeans. I had pants with some boy's name written in marker down the side. But having no money taught me to be creative and to take pride in what I could do to be funkier."
"People think I'm some kind of hippie. I don't even recycle."
"I began writing songs when I was 16 and I heard all kinds of stuff in my head."
�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�
�If I could tell the world just one thing it would be we're all okay, and not to worry cause worry is wasteful and useless in times like these. I won't be made useless, wont be idle with despair, I will gather myself around my faith, lights the darkness most fear.�
�Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.�
�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.�
"I felt I was able to have an impact on people who came to my shows, and make a difference, even if it was 100 people."
"I haven't really changed musical direction, but broadened my influences."
"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."
"Music touches people. It makes you feel that other people understand what you are going through."
"Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself."
"There are two reasons you can have this job. One is because you wanna be famous and the other is because you like the craft."
"Inside my skin there is this place, it twists and turns, it bleeds and aches. Inside my hollow heart there's an empty room, it's waiting for lightning, it's waiting for you."
"There are people selling thoughtlessness with such casualty."
"Love is something that must do, but never be. Its blade is made of jealousy and insecurity."
"If we are surrounded by beauty, someday we will become what we see"
(about growing up in Alaska)
"I loved being raised there. There was a lot of silence and open space. In some ways we're sculptured by our environments. Our flesh is sculptured by what is around us, as well as our psyches; by silence. In silence you hear who you are going to become. You create yourself in silence."
"Don't think too hard, don't think too fast. Don't ever give away what you can't take back. Don't try to understand what you can't comprehend"
"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 to give up looking at all you and trying to do everyone else's laundry and look at myself and what do I need... and that's profound. We point so many fingers and go 'this person isn't... are you blah blah blah?" If we all just took care of ourselves it'd be very efficient... all I can do ultimately in my own life... all I can speak is from my experience."
"Reality is a funny thing, you know... Reality is what you believe; 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."
(about her childhood winters and Christmases)
"Winter was full of sleigh rides and toboggans and lots of snow. It's pretty idyllic if you like the cold, which I didn't."
"Life is much better without all those pretty lies"