Jewel Kilcher

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

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

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

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.

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

The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist.

If I’m a phenomenon, it makes me feel like I have no purpose.

I’m not a partygoer.

I’m not a wild and crazy person.

I love being in a band.

The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

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.

I’m fairly specific about what I like to wear and looks are important to me, just like they are to everybody.

I’ve been performing on stage since I was six years old.

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it’s just obtuse to them. It’s hard to relate to.

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

I tend to eat what I want, which probably isn’t good.

I don’t exist without writing.

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

What’s great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.

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

I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.

You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood.

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