"In the tenth grade, I was fascinated with the question "what was immortality?" I read numerous philosophies, but the theory which has stayed with me was that of Plato, the Symposium. The idea that through Love and Beauty we achieve immortality. Putting all our soul in our work makes it not only alive with passion and emotion, but also it exists as one of the truest and most honest expressions of self. Making life a beautiful art, the art then retaining life. I still believe Beauty is one of the most important and difficult things to create and express. -Jewel Kilcher on "Painters" "I felt in my life very suffocated and smothered by my circumstance. Your life becomes what you believe. I was living in a house with my mom and my younger brother and we were all sharing rent and wasn't really making rent. Didn't get to eat, I scraped food off of people's plates where I waitressed, I stole toilet paper from fast food restaurants... I got fired from my last job and that was it. My mom was like we're just going to do what we love, and we're gonna just have faith. So I lived in my van, and she lived in her van. And I decided, fine, I'll die, but I want to go to college. I'll die, I don't want to go to work and waitress. I want to do what I love only. I love singing, I never really thought I could make a living at it, it was dreaming. Zen, Buddha, God, Jesus, Trees, whatever is out there, what I want is. I want to make a living doing what I love, you know?" "Sometimes asking the question limits the answer" "Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose" "I'm sorry I'm glue and the rest bounces off of you" "Grace is the refinement of a soul through time." "Hands manifest thought." "I believe your mind creates your world, your life is the emotional perception." "We are each others angels in the way that we answer each others prayers and we can also make each others lives miserable." "In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself." "Grace is the refinement of a soul through time." "People look at me in magazines and feel like I'm a phenomenon, as if what I've accomplished is beyond their ability. I tell them to knock it off. If you respect what I've done, then do something yourself." "We all should choose our friends carefully. I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else, because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself. If you think like that, you surround yourself with other people who are willing to tell you who you are, which are usually judgmental people...we should really surround ourselves with the ones that adore us and believe in the highest of us." [Home] [Biography] [Media] [News] [Discography] [Lyrics] [Poll] [Quotes] [The Award] [Mailing List] [Chat] [Downloads] [Store] [Links] [Poetry] [Contest] [Updates] [ E-Mail] [Guestbook]