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“I believe optimism is a choice. Cynicism isn't smarter, it's just safer.”

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Interview https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/jewel-19981224 with Neil Strauss in Rolling Stone (24 December 1998)
Contexte: I kept getting typified as this Pollyanna neohippie. I think it's because I have a different definition of optimism. I've noticed a belief that somehow optimism lacks intelligence and that optimism stems from a lack of experience and naiveté. I don't believe that. I believe optimism is a choice. Cynicism isn't smarter, it's just safer.

“I think each person knows what's good for them. I don't think you need to be drastic. But it's finding where's passion in your life. We can't live without dreams.”

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The Late Late Show (24 January 1997)

“the greatest
Grace
we can aspire to
is the strength
to see the wounded
walk with the forgotten
and pull ourselves
from the screaming
blood of our losses
to fight on
undaunted
all the more”

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"I Say to You Idols"
A Night Without Armor (1998)

“Pieces of You is not a good record. It's an embarrassing record, ultimately. It's like having your dirty laundry aired out. I didn't think people would hear it. But it made me realize that all people want is to be touched. They don't care if it's Celine Dion or Meat Loaf or me.”

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Interview with Neil Strauss in Rolling Stone (24 December 1998)

“I'd sit on logs like pulpits
listen to the sermon
of sparrows
and find god in Simplicity,
there amongst the dandelion
and thorn”

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"As a Child I Walked"
A Night Without Armor (1998)