Jewel quotes

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time. (Jewel)
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there's really nothing to lose. View quote
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Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it. View quote
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Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend. View quote
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The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach. View quote
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I believe optimism is a choice. Cynicism isn't smarter, it's just safer. View quote
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I'd sit on logs like pulpits listen to the sermon of sparrows and find god in Simplicity, there amongst the dandelion and thorn. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate. View quote
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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. (Jewel)
I have hundreds and hundreds of songs waiting to get on albums, but I don't know about the three-month radio tours and if I'll be interested in that. I haven't figured it out, but I will definitely be doing music, whether it is independent or with a major record label. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I find you get out of people what you put into them. View quote
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I guess I'm a Gemini through and through, but I'm mercurial. I get bored doing the same things. View quote
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I don't exist without writing. (Jewel)
I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort. View quote
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So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents. View quote
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Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting. View quote
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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. View quote
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