Quotes from Jewel

Audiences don't care if you sing correctly. They care if they feel something. If they don't, they forget you. Emotional honesty creates loyalty and a lifelong connection above all else.

It's been too many nights of being with to now be suddenly without.

Hurt people can become hurtful

I believe we forget who we are over time, and in our state of forgetfulness we struggle and employ all kinds of learned behaviors that don't necessarily help us or bring us happiness. Each of us has a self that exists undamaged and whole, from the moment we are born waiting to be reclaimed.

Your hands already know too much.

Betrayal converts our innocence to wisdom if we can let go of pain, bitterness, and fear and create enough self-love and safety for ourselves to allow it to do so.

My innocence is not lost—it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call breaking is the pain that comes from resisting the truth. Life broke parts of me that needed to fall away for me to live an open and truthful life.

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.

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.

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

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

In case you failed to notice, in case you failed to see, this is my heart, bleeding before you, this is me down on my knees.

I don't exist without writing.

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

I will gather myself around my faith, for light does the darkness most fear.

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

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

We all should choose our friends carefully. I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else, because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself. If you think like that, you surround yourself with other people who ar

I'm having a bad day. I am not size six. My legs are not skinny as sticks, and dammit, someone's got to pay. I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself and that my happiness depends on someone else. I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall. You're so s

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

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

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.