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Jewel [1974-0] American

Rank: 103
Musician, Supermarket company

Jewel-Osco is a supermarket chain headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. Jewel-Osco has 185 stores across northern, central, and western Illinois; eastern Iowa; and portions of northwest Indiana.

Age, Car, Courage, Famous, Forgiveness, Music, Poetry, Thankful

Quote	Tags	Rank
On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.		101
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.	Courage	102
You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood.		103
I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.		104
Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.	Forgiveness	105
If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.		106
I enjoy hard work; I love setting goals and achieving them.		107
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.	Music	108
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.		109
I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.	Age	110
I'm a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I'm very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times I'm completely goofy and girlie. So, I like my songs to cover all my moods.		111
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.		112
Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.		113
My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.		114
I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.		115
It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves.		116
I guess I'm a Gemini through and through, but I'm mercurial. I get bored doing the same things.		117
I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.		118
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.		119
Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.		120
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.		121
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,'	Poetry	122
Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.	Famous	123
I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a kids album that didn't annoy parents. I used The Beatles 'Rocky Raccoon' as sort of a starting place for my writing.		124
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there's really nothing to lose.		125
I developed a loyal following. No one knew I was homeless.		126
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.		201
Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.		202
Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.		203
The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.		204
Once you are successful, there's a very seductive rhythm at work that keeps you wanting to outdo yourself. By the end of 'Spirit' I felt like I didn't want to get into that trap. It almost makes you cartoon-like.		205
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.	Car	206
When we're children we're told love is going to be great: Just fall in love, the rest will take care of itself - and then we fall in love and we realize, Okay, this is actually really, really hard work. This guy doesn't just tell me I'm great every day, you know?		207
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.		208
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.		209
I'm trying to be in the moment and really enjoy my pregnancy. I feel really lucky.		210
I think being raised spending so much time outdoors was really important - while you're in it, you might not know, but now I think of the things I was thankful for.	Thankful	211
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.		212
Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.		213
I'm not a wild and crazy person.		214
So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.		215
What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.		216
I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.		217
I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.		218
I find you get out of people what you put into them.		219
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.		220
I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.		221
We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America.		222
I have a life that I enjoy; I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.		223
I was raised really poor and so was my husband.		224
I think family mealtime is really important. There's a lot of research that shows kids are going to do better in school and have more self-esteem if you can all sit down and eat together.		225
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.		226
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.		301
There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself; you know, have fun, take chances. Those bounds.		302
I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.		303
I've been writing lullabies since the beginning. I kind of did it for myself to help myself fall asleep when I really worried, like when I was homeless and I'd fall asleep in my car.		304
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.		305
I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really amazing writers. It is a fantastic creative outlet and such an amazing teaching tool. The thing I love about kids, too, is it is so imaginative and poetic.		306
I have hundreds and hundreds of songs waiting to get on albums, but I don't know about the three-month radio tours and if I'll be interested in that. I haven't figured it out, but I will definitely be doing music, whether it is independent or with a major record label.		307
I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.		308
I'm fairly specific about what I like to wear and looks are important to me, just like they are to everybody.		309
I tend to eat what I want, which probably isn't good.		310
I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.		311
The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist.		312
I love being in a band.		313
I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.		314
I'm not a partygoer.		315
I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.		316
I don't exist without writing.		317
The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.		318
If I'm a phenomenon, it makes me feel like I have no purpose.		319
I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.		320
Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.		321
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.		322
I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.		323
Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.		324
I have always been a workaholic.		325
I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail.		326
For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.		401
I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.		402
My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer.		403
I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music.		404
I've always toured solo acoustic.		405
Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise.		406
I love touring - I don't do it as often as I should.		407
My fans get passionate about certain songs.		408
There are a lot of things about fame that are not conducive to being curious. It's been important for me to cloister myself off.		409
I'm a happy mum. I didn't think it was in the cards for me, so I feel very blessed.		410
I moved out of home when I was 15.		411
I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed.		412

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