When we're children we're told love is going to be great: Just fall in love, the rest will take care of itself - and then we fall in love and we realize, Okay, this is actually really, really hard work. This guy doesn't just tell me I'm great every day, you know?

Jewel

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

Jewel

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.

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

You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood.

Jewel

The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.

Jewel

I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.

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

If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.

Jewel

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.

Jewel

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.

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

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

Jewel

I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

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've always toured solo acoustic.

Jewel

Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.

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

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

Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

Jewel

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.

Jewel