Top 180 Jewel Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I didn’t mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that’s all I had to do.”

— Jewel

102. “Most of us don’t spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.”

— Jewel

103. “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

104. “I don’t see the world unless I see it in ink.”

— Jewel

105. “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

106. “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.”

— Jewel

107. “I get really bored if I don’t have more than one thing going on.”

— Jewel

108. “Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality.”

— Jewel

109. “We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in.”

— Jewel

110. “I love touring – I don’t do it as often as I should.”

— Jewel

111. “I love playing big rooms. There’s nothing like it. It’s a power trip.”

— Jewel

112. “I’ve always toured solo acoustic.”

— Jewel

113. “Without a band, I’m much more free to improvise.”

— Jewel

114. “I believe we forget who we are over time, and in our state of forgetfulness we struggle and employ all kinds of learned behaviors that don’t necessarily help us or bring us happiness. Each of us has a self that exists undamaged and whole, from the moment we are born waiting to be reclaimed.”

— Jewel

115. “All artists give birth. It’s alchemy and it’s really an amazing process.”

— Jewel

116. “I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I’ve become.”

— Jewel

117. “Nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend.”

— Jewel

118. “There is a pretty girl on the face of the magazine and all I see is my dirty hands turning the page.”

— Jewel

119. “Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.”

— Jewel

120. “I say to myself, sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again.”

— Jewel

121. “Words can be said easily, but one can’t fake actions.”

— Jewel

122. “Hard wood grows slowly. Be thoughtful about the shape you want to grow into, and be mindful that there is no shortcut to strength and character. Have the patience to allow yourself and your goals to develop.”

— Jewel

123. “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

124. “I love to be alone with life. I love to study simple things: the light as it filters in a window; the music of a room full of people chatting; a horizon.”

— Jewel

125. “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

126. “Negative self-criticism is an iron chain that will never let you ascend to real greatness.”

— Jewel

127. “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

128. “Greatness is never achieved by trying to imitate the greatness of another. Greatness is chipping away at all that does not belong to you and then expressing yourself so truly that others can’t help but recognize it.”

— Jewel

129. “We all will be Christed when we hear ourselves say: We are that to which we pray.”

— Jewel

130. “I find you get out of people what you put into them.”

— Jewel

131. “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

132. “Unfelt feelings don’t cease to exist; they stay bottled up in our minds and our bodies. They dissipate when given expression. A heart can break only if it is closed – if it remains open there is nothing to break.”

— Jewel

133. “Feelings are your soul’s way of communicating. Pain is trying to teach you something, and if you don’t listen now, it will speak louder and louder until it is heard.”

— Jewel

134. “I learned years later that my gratitude practice actually helped me form new neural pathways. The hippie rituals of positive affirmations are not just baloney. Gratitude doesn’t exist only in your mind – you have to feel it in your whole being. Feelings are the shadows of thoughts. When we have negative thoughts, our emotions mirror them with anxiety. You can often see what you are thinking by reverse engineering and studying your feelings.”

— Jewel

135. “The truest treasure is a soul who believes in its own existence.”

— Jewel

136. “Carrying anger with you is like lighting your own house on fire to get rid of rats. The rats run to safety while you burn yourself down. Forgive. Let go. Heal.”

— Jewel

137. “A soul cannot be broken. It is not a teacup. If you have suffered abuse of any kind, know that perfection exists untarnished within you.”

— Jewel

138. “I realized that happiness was not some bird that landed on your shoulder by accident, but was a skill that was taught, or not taught, in certain houses and families. After.”

— Jewel

139. “What I know about street outreach is that it is essential to dealing with the issue of youth homelessness.”

— Jewel

140. “The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.”

— Jewel

141. “I would try to be as bold as that blue waterfall that had the audacity to liberate itself from stone.”

— Jewel

142. “Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.”

— Jewel

143. “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

144. “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

145. “Spend time in silence. Take time to get to know yourself and your genius in stillness.”

— Jewel

146. “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.”

— Jewel

147. “We’ve made houses for hatred. It’s time we made a place where people’s souls may be seen and made safe.”

— Jewel

148. “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

149. “And believing that we are broken is the same as being broken. It means we experience ourselves that way. That perception shapes our reality. It is an illusion we must strive to avoid, as great misery comes from such a belief.”

— Jewel

150. “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