Jewel Quotes

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.'

Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.

Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality.

I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.

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

Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower Went up where the homeless had their home.

Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

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

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.

Life in a shelter or on the streets puts homeless kids and youth at a higher risk for physical and sexual assault and abuse, physical illness, including HIV/AIDS

Support for shelters and transitional living and housing programs is necessary if we are going to change the landscape for homeless boys and girls in America.

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

Words can crush things that are unseen.

Maybe I could have loved you better. Maybe you should have loved me more. Maybe our hearts were just next in line. Maybe everything breaks sometime.

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

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.

If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we're all OK

I know, you love me and soon you will see, you were meant for me and I was meant for you

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

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

Dreams last so long, even after you're gone

As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.

Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.

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.

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.

I think being raised spending so much time outdoors was really important - while you're in it, you might not know, but now I think of the things I was thankful for.

Love is a flame neither timid nor tame.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference.

I get really bored if I don't have more than one thing going on.

Show me one man who knows his own heart, to him I shall belong.

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

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

I make a living with a song, and I feel honored to do something I love and believe in.

I'm always looking for ways that I can work from home with my home studio and stay busy. This is a great way to do it. Having a home studio has made projects like this a lot easier.

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

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

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 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.

I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.

I don't exist without writing.

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