Quotes from Jewel

How did our thoughts affect our reality and interact with the world on a quantum level?

Feelings are the shadows of thoughts. When we have negative thoughts, our emotions mirror them with anxiety. You can often see what you are thinking by reverse engineering and studying your feelings.

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'm not a wild and crazy person.

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

No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from.

Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear.

Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery, and you shall live a life uncommon.

Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

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

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

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

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.

Everything is temporary if you give it enough time.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

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.