Jewel Quotes

I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I've become.

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

Cynicism is for lightweights.

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

I have been told for so many years that you can't be smart and sexy. I started to think, "Well, why the heck can't you be both?"

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

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

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

Excuse me, guess I've mistaken you for somebody else, somebody who gave a damn, somebody more like myself.

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.

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.

Only kindness matters. We are God's hands.

We are loved beyond our ability to comprehend.

Cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer. There's nothing fluffy about optimism.

We are each others angels in the way that we answer each others prayers and we can also make each others lives miserable.

But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty Someday we will become what we see

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

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.

It's just an inch from me to you depending on what map you use.

I've always toured solo acoustic.

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.

I've always been a workhorse.

Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

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

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

I'd rather see the world from a different angle.

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

I was raised in a household where I read Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky and Kant, and I was never taught that my mind was feminine. I'm aware that my body is.

What we call human nature, is actually human habit.

I'd sit on logs like pulpitslisten to the sermonof sparrowsand find god in Simplicity,there amongst the dandelionand thorn

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

We all will be Christed when we hear ourselves say: We are that to which we pray

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

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.

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

Life is seductive, yet so few allow themselves to be seduced.

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

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

You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable.

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

Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.

I have a two-year-old boy. Being his mom feels like I have a present I get to spend the rest of my life opening.

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

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

To shut down the ability to feel pain means you shut down all emotions, joy included. It makes our hearts feel small, it robs us of our joy, and really keeps us no safer.

Romance is the sweetening of the soulWith fragrance offered by the stricken heart.

The things you fear are undefeatablenot by their nature but by your approach

The truest treasure is a soul who believes in its own existence

It was hard to bear your soul while someone was talking to their friend about a new sweater they bought.