Top 180 Jewel Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Most of us don’t spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.”

— Jewel

102. “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

103. “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

104. “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

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

— Jewel

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

— Jewel

107. “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

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

— Jewel

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

— Jewel

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

— Jewel

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

— Jewel

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

— Jewel

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

— Jewel

114. “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

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

— Jewel

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

— Jewel

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

— Jewel

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

— Jewel

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

— Jewel

120. “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

121. “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

122. “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

123. “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

124. “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

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

— Jewel

126. “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

127. “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

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

— Jewel

129. “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

130. “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

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

— Jewel

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

— 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. “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

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

— Jewel

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

— Jewel

137. “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

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

— Jewel

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

— Jewel

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

— Jewel

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

— Jewel

143. “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

144. “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

145. “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

146. “Solutions and technologies exist to provide clean, affordable drinking water anywhere in the world. These solutions will save lives, reduce financial burdens, foster peace, and relieve millions of people from worrying about their next drink of water.”

— Jewel

147. “My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn’t happen, none of this is worth it.”

— Jewel

148. “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

149. “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

150. “I will shrink myself no longer to make any human feel secure.”

— Jewel