Jewel Quotes - Page 5

A good love is delicious, you can't get enough too soon.

I was raised in a household where I read Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky and Kant, and I was never taught that my mind was feminine. I'm aware that my body is.

Excuse me, guess I've mistaken you for somebody else, somebody who gave a damn, somebody more like myself.

I don't exist without writing.

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

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

My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty.

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

Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

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

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.

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

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.

I've always been a workhorse.

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.

I know, you love me and soon you will see, you were meant for me and I was meant for you

Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Assemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam. Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes and it will shine - Calling me. For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair. A man who will Kiss the Flame.

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

If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we're all OK

When you're standing in deep water And you're bailing yourself out with a straw And when you're drowning in deep water And you wake up making love to a wall Well it's these little time that help to remind It's nothing without love, love, love

I will gather myself around my faith, for light does the darkness most fear.

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

Only kindness matters. We are God's hands.

Dreams last so long, even after you're gone

I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.