Jewel

“If someone is willing to help you understand your own worth when you're vulnerable, that's a very touching thing. It makes you want to help other people.”

“What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.”

“I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.”

“I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.”

“My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer.”

“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.”

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

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

“I'm a happy mum. I didn't think it was in the cards for me, so I feel very blessed.”

“I think family mealtime is really important. There's a lot of research that shows kids are going to do better in school and have more self-esteem if you can all sit down and eat together.”

“So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.”

“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.”

“I've been writing lullabies since the beginning. I kind of did it for myself to help myself fall asleep when I really worried, like when I was homeless and I'd fall asleep in my car.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music.”

“I have always been a workaholic.”