Top 205 Quotes & Sayings by Jewel - Page 2

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.

If I'm a phenomenon, it makes me feel like I have no purpose.

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.

I don't exist without writing.

I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed.

My fans get passionate about certain songs.

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.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music.

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.

I'm a happy mum. I didn't think it was in the cards for me, so I feel very blessed.

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.

Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise.

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.

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself; you know, have fun, take chances. Those bounds.

I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

I enjoy hard work; I love setting goals and achieving them.

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.

I developed a loyal following. No one knew I was homeless.

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.

I've always toured solo acoustic.

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.

I moved out of home when I was 15.

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.

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.

I love touring - I don't do it as often as I should.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Love is a flame neither timid nor tame.

Your life becomes what you believe.

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.

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.

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.

In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself.

All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.

Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon.

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.

We must demand more not from each other, but more from ourselves

Who will save your soul, if you won’t save your own?

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.

Nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend.

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.

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.

No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from.

Everything is temporary if you give it enough time.

Optimism is a choice. Cynicism isn't smarter - it's just safer.

The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.

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.

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

In the end only kindness matters.

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.

Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear.