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. – Jewel
I guess I’m a Gemini through and through, but I’m mercurial. I get bored doing the same things. – 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
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
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. – Jewel
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. – Jewel
I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it’s just obtuse to them. It’s hard to relate to. – Jewel
Once you are successful, there’s a very seductive rhythm at work that keeps you wanting to outdo yourself. By the end of ‘Spirit’ I felt like I didn’t want to get into that trap. It almost makes you cartoon-like. – Jewel
What’s great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place. – Jewel
I’m becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that’s what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time. – Jewel
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
Records have never really been my strong suit. I’ve always been a much better live act. I didn’t understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft – it’s just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album. – Jewel
I’m the classic absent-minded professor: I’m very focused on something, and meanwhile, I’ve left the refrigerator door open for hours. – Jewel
My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn’t come across – the music was pretty. – 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. – 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
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