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. Jewel More Quotes by Jewel More Quotes From Jewel 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 Jewel smart sexy crazy I'd sit on logs like pulpitslisten to the sermonof sparrowsand find god in Simplicity,there amongst the dandelionand thorn Jewel simplicity I like pressure. If I am not on the edge of failure, I'm not being sufficiently challenged. Jewel edges ifs pressure Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality. Jewel innocence immortality achieve If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we're all OK Jewel just-one would-be world 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 passion reading littles We all will be Christed when we hear ourselves say: We are that to which we pray Jewel praying When you're standing in deep water Jewel deep-water wall song Dreams last so long Jewel dream heart song What we call human nature, is actually human habit. Jewel human-nature habit humans I get really bored if I don't have more than one thing going on. Jewel bored reading book Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds. Jewel take-a-chance courageous fun I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do. Jewel grew bars grew-up I guess I’m a Gemini through and through, but I’m mercurial. I get bored doing the same things. Jewel bored I love touring - I don't do it as often as I should. Jewel touring should I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort. Jewel organized found comfort 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. Jewel singing coffee people 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. Jewel fats needed ifs I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed. Jewel angel sleep song I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15. Jewel