Jewel Quotes - Page 6

Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery, and you shall live a life uncommon.

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.

Clean water is a necessity that we can no longer take for granted. Each year more people die of water related diseases than any other cause of death on this planet. With a higher rate of suffering and mortality than diabetes, cancer, high cholesterol, or war; or any two combined for that matter! An entire economy is growing around water. Those without money are suffering the most and risk severe illness from contaminated sources

I've always toured solo acoustic.

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

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.

All through the night I'll be standing over you All through the night I'll be watching over you And through the bad dreams I'll be right there, Baby holding your hand, Telling you everything is all right. And when you cry I'll be right there Telling you were never Anything less than beautiful. So don't worry I'm your Angel standing by.

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

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.

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.

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

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

I have been told for so many years that you can't be smart and sexy. I started to think, "Well, why the heck can't you be both?"

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 enjoy hard work, I love setting goals and achieving them.

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

I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.

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.

People living their lives for you on TV; They say they're better than you, and you agree.

Cynicism is for lightweights.

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

I love life and I love that about people... I adore the human experience, I really adore the ... I love the contradictions of people... I don't mind being sexy and girlish and womanly, and all those things at the same time... smart and very

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

I like pressure. If I am not on the edge of failure, I'm not being sufficiently challenged.

What we call human nature, is actually human habit.