Top 60 Jewel Quotes

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

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

I have always been a workaholic.

I’m not a wild and crazy person.

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

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

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.

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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’ve always toured solo acoustic.

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

I moved out of home when I was 15.

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 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.

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

My fans get passionate about certain songs.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I’m half alive but I feel mostly dead.

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

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

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 love touring – I don’t do it as often as I should.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I don’t exist without writing.

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