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.
JewelI 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.
JewelBeing engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.
JewelThere is a pretty girl on the face of the magazine and all I see is my dirty hands turning the page.
Jewel