Jewel Quotes

Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from.

My whole act is confession.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.

To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world.

Some people are attracted to vulnerability. From my very first album, I've been vulnerable. I've always given parts of me, parts of my life - good, bad, ugly. I've never put up this image as a super-thug. Also, some people just like the music.

I think my favorite artists are honest artists, and as a songwriter, that's what you have to do. You have to be willing to put yourself out there in a really vulnerable way.

It's the most personal thing that I do is sing. Because I can't tell a lie. I want them to know exactly what I'm feeling.

I think the best writing is full of honesty and conviction. A lot of people are afraid to reveal much of themselves.

I feel like I try to write from an honest of a place as I can - without scaring people off too much, I guess.

I always feel vulnerable talking about the poetry aspect of my career because it's little diary entries that I need to sometimes close read, and to reveal that much, it's a bit nerve-racking.

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

I was already in a groove and decided to initially write down everything, as I would in an actual diary, and then go back and take out what I was too shy to reveal. But I wound up leaving more in than I imagined, and that was because I wanted to be transparent and real.

There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Not only am I putting music out there, I'm giving part of myself away.

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away.

The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

I often write things, and then I think it's too personal for the Moodies. It's not something that I could share with other guys to say.

I'd rather tell you how I really feel.