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We must demand more not from each other, but more from ourselves
Jewel
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Jewel
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: May 23
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Jewel Kilcher
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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
I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed.
Jewel
My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.
Jewel
Life in a shelter or on the streets puts homeless kids and youth at a higher risk for physical and sexual assault and abuse, physical illness, including HIV/AIDS
Jewel
People living their lives for you on TV They say they're better than you, and you agree.
Jewel
The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference.
Jewel
Excuse me, guess I've mistaken you for somebody else, somebody who gave a damn, somebody more like myself.
Jewel
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
In the end only kindness matters.
Jewel
I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end up with the original pain, as well as new pain added on top of it from the tactics you used trying to avoid it in the first place. It's best to take a deep breath, bolster yourself, and walk through it.
Jewel
Optimism is a choice. Cynicism isn't smarter - it's just safer.
Jewel
I make a living with a song, and I feel honored to do something I love and believe in.
Jewel
Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.
Jewel
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
A good love is delicious, you can't get enough too soon.
Jewel
I'm always looking for ways that I can work from home with my home studio and stay busy. This is a great way to do it. Having a home studio has made projects like this a lot easier.
Jewel
Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.
Jewel
I'd rather see the world from a different angle.
Jewel
Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.
Jewel
You have to realize: OK, I don't know how to solve a political problem, I don't know how to solve the pollution problem... all I know is in my own life, I need to figure out some sense of purpose, I need to figure out how to be happy... and I'm willing.
Jewel
