Top 205 Quotes & Sayings by Jewel

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.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America.

I love being in a band.

Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.

I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there's really nothing to lose.

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.

The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist.

I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.

My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.

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?

Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

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.

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,'

It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves.

I'm trying to be in the moment and really enjoy my pregnancy. I feel really lucky.

I'm not a partygoer.

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.

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.

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds.

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

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.

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.

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.

The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.

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

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.

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.

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.

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

I guess I'm a Gemini through and through, but I'm mercurial. I get bored doing the same things.

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.

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.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

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.

What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.

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.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

I'm fairly specific about what I like to wear and looks are important to me, just like they are to everybody.

I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.

You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood.

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.

I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail.

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 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.

I'm not a wild and crazy person.

I have always been a workaholic.

I tend to eat what I want, which probably isn't good.

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.

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.

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.

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

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.

The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.

I find you get out of people what you put into them.