Jewel

The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

I've done gospel songs on every album.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.