Jewel Quotes

Don't worry mother, it'll be alrightAnd don't worry sister, say your prayers and sleep rightIt'll be fine lover of mineIt'll be just fineLend your voices only to sounds of freedomNo longer lend you strength to that which you wish to be free fromFill your lives with love and braveryAnd you shall lead a live uncommon

~ Jewel

Well 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 kneesThese foolish games are tearing me apartYour thoughtless words are breaking my heartYou're breaking my heart

~ Jewel

The things you fear are undefeatablenot by their nature but by your approach

~ Jewel

The truest treasure is a soul who believes in its own existence

~ Jewel

It was hard to bear your soul while someone was talking to their friend about a new sweater they bought.

~ Jewel

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.

~ Jewel

I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: You don't outrun pain.

~ Jewel

Reality wins, and I'd rather see the truth than stay in love with a fantasy.

~ Jewel

Being idolized and being torn down felt oddly similar. They both made me feel alone.Friendship and trust should be earned, and when you're famous, people seem to want to give them to you whether you've earned them or not, and it felt dishonest to me. Fame was not real. It was all a projection—fame made me a blank canvas that people projected their love, lust, troubles, self-worth, and desire upon. Fame and power do not change us, they amplify us.

~ Jewel

You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it.

~ Jewel

My hands are small, I knowBut they're not yours, they are my ownBut they're not yours, they are my ownAnd I am never broken

~ Jewel

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.

~ Jewel

This is the best worst time of my life.

~ Jewel

We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.

~ Jewel

Words can be said easily, but one can't fake actions.

~ Jewel

In the end only kindness matters.

~ Jewel

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose.

~ Jewel

True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail.

~ Jewel

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.

~ Jewel

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.

~ Jewel

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.

~ Jewel

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.

~ Jewel

I think family mealtime is really important. There's a lot of research that shows kids are going to do better in school and have more self-esteem if you can all sit down and eat together.

~ Jewel

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.

~ Jewel

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds.

~ Jewel

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

~ Jewel

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

~ Jewel

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,'

~ Jewel

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.

~ Jewel