Top 180 Jewel Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I don’t exist without writing.”

— Jewel

52. “I’ve always been a workhorse, and I’ve been supporting myself since I was 15.”

— Jewel

53. “Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.”

— Jewel

54. “You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable.”

— Jewel

55. “I was raised in a household where I read Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky and Kant, and I was never taught that my mind was feminine. I’m aware that my body is.”

— Jewel

56. “If you love somebody; You better let it out; Don’t hold it back; While you’re trying to figure it out; Cause the only real pain a heart can ever know; Is the sorrow of regret; When you don’t let your feelings show. So, did you say it, Did you mean it?”

— Jewel

57. “I’d rather see the world from a different angle.”

— Jewel

58. “My intention for my life is to stay centered, and from that intention come my priorities: my son, my family, my job, my self. That then informs what kind of work I can take on. It’s a balancing act, but a fun one.”

— Jewel

59. “But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty Someday we will become what we see.”

— Jewel

60. “Maybe I could have loved you better. Maybe you should have loved me more. Maybe our hearts were just next in line. Maybe everything breaks sometime.”

— Jewel

61. “I’m having a bad day. I am not size six. My legs are not skinny as sticks, and dammit, someone’s got to pay. I’m afraid that I can’t satisfy myself and that my happiness depends on someone else. I feel weak, so you’re gonna take the fall. You’re so shallow.”

— Jewel

62. “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 knees These foolish games are tearing me apart Your thoughtless words are breaking my heart You’re breaking my heart.”

— Jewel

63. “Show me one man who knows his own heart, to him I shall belong.”

— Jewel

64. “It’s been too many nights of being with to now be suddenly without.”

— Jewel

65. “Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery, and you shall live a life uncommon.”

— Jewel

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

— Jewel

67. “I’m becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that’s what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.”

— Jewel

68. “Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.”

— Jewel

69. “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

70. “I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience and love unconditionally. It is easier to love a person with their flaws than to weed through them. I want to love the whole person, not parts; and this is how I want to be loved.”

— Jewel

71. “We must demand more not from each other, but more from ourselves.”

— Jewel

72. “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

73. “I used to love reading when I was little, and then it became difficult and I didn’t understand why. I thought, what a bummer, my passion all drained out of me. So when I found out I had dyslexia, it was like, oh, that’s what it was.”

— Jewel

74. “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

75. “I have been told for so many years that you can’t be smart and sexy. I started to think, “Well, why the heck can’t you be both?””

— Jewel

76. “Winter is a time for going inward. For tending to the unseen.”

— Jewel

77. “The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference.”

— Jewel

78. “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

79. “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.”

— Jewel

80. “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

81. “I have a two-year-old boy. Being his mom feels like I have a present I get to spend the rest of my life opening.”

— Jewel

82. “Love is a flame neither timid nor tame.”

— Jewel

83. “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

84. “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

85. “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

86. “Life is seductive, yet so few allow themselves to be seduced.”

— Jewel

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

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88. “I don’t feel like I’ve changed as much as radio formats have changed.”

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89. “Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.”

— Jewel

90. “I am most alive when I let myself be touched by the fingers of life.”

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91. “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.”

— Jewel

92. “I’m trying to be in the moment and really enjoy my pregnancy. I feel really lucky.”

— Jewel

93. “I developed a loyal following. No one knew I was homeless.”

— Jewel

94. “You always feel better when you sing. Music touches people’s hearts. You know, it doesn’t go through your mental capacity, it just moves you and it will let you cry. It’s worth it doing a show and when you touch a crowd and move yourself at the same.”

— Jewel

95. “I love vulnerability. It’s what keeps me soft and from becoming emotionally calcified.”

— Jewel

96. “I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.”

— Jewel

97. “Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet’s eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.”

— Jewel

98. “I have a life that I enjoy; I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.”

— Jewel

99. “Reality wins, and I’d rather see the truth than stay in love with a fantasy.”

— Jewel

100. “Optimisn is a choice. Cynicism isnt smarter – it’s just safer.”

— Jewel