Quotes from Jewel

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've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

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

Love is a flame neither timid nor tame.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.

Sharing lets us feel less isolated and puts us on a path of being connected. At the end of the day, that's what we all want.

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 would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic.

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.

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'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.

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.

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

I'm fairly specific about what I like to wear and looks are important to me, just like they are to everybody.

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

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

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.