Jewel Kilcher Quotes
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Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.
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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, and so it's heartbreaking to hear people say snarky things.
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There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself; you know, have fun, take chances. Those bounds.
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I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail.
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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.
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I'm not a partygoer.
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I tend to eat what I want, which probably isn't good.
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I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed.
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I'm not a wild and crazy person.
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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.
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I sort of came out at the dawn of the Internet in the mid-90s and I think it helped break my career. I think I was one of the first artists to really benefit from the grassroots swell that can happen online. I don't know if I would have broken out without it.
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The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist.
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I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.
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I love being in a band.
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I enjoy hard work; I love setting goals and achieving them.
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I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.
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Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
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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.