Jewel

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

“It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves.”

“Don't worry mother, it'll be alrightAnd don't worry sister, say your prayers and sleep rightIt'll be fine lover of mineIt'll be just fineLend your voices only to sounds of freedomNo longer lend you strength to that which you wish to be free fromFill your lives with love and braveryAnd you shall lead a live uncommon”

“I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.”

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

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

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

“I've always toured solo acoustic.”

“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.”

“I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: You don't outrun pain.”

“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.”

“I'm not a partygoer.”

“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.”

“I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.”

“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.”

“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.”