Jewel Quotes

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.

Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.

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

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.

A good love is delicious, you can't get enough too soon.

I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.

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

I've always toured solo acoustic.

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

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.

I am most alive when I let myself be touched by the fingers of life.

It's important to cultivate a tolerance and patience with uncomfortable feelings. It's best to feel them.

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.

What we call human nature, is actually human habit.

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 like pressure. If I am not on the edge of failure, I'm not being sufficiently challenged.

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.

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.

I love vulnerability. It's what keeps me soft and from becoming emotionally calcified.

I've always been a workhorse.

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

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.

If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we are all ok. And not to worry because worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

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

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

My hands are small, but they're not yours, they are my own... I am never broken.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

We've made houses for hatred. It's time we made a place where people's souls may be seen and made safe.

Everything is temporary if you give it enough time.

Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

There is a pretty girl on the face of the magazine and all I see is my dirty hands turning the page.

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

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.

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.

I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That's where I learned to tell the truth when I was young.

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?

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.'

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.

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

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.

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

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

All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.