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Jewel: ELLE celebrity profile
Sorting the truth from the lies gave her a new-found sense of peace. It's been a wild ride, but the poetic songstress is finally happy.
By Mary Dickie
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While these songs are honest, confessional accounts of Jewel's experiences, it seems that there are limits to how much of her life she's willing to share with the public. "I've been a hedonistic little vampire my whole life," she says, laughing. "At one time, words were the only things that I felt any loyalty to, and each boyfriend or experience was -- sometimes quite heartlessly -- just material for a poem. That started to change when I fell in love. I've written some poems for my boyfriend, Ty. They are love poems, and they're fairly graphic -- not trashy but a bit explicit. I'm not sure they are for public consumption. I certainly don't think they're for his mom to read! I'd be really embarrassed. I think it's some of my best writing, but I don't know if I'll ever publish them."
Falling in love with Murray and moving to Texas were definitely pivotal moments in Jewel's life, giving her the peace she had been craving for quite some time. "Some writers have to be in the thick of things to write, but I have to be outside of things," she explains. "Texas has been such a calming influence, and it allows me to do my job. I couldn't do it if I was in the thick of it all. It would drive me nuts!" Choosing to live in the southern state also meant putting her acting ambitions on hold. "As a songwriter, you're dealing with -- at most -- a six-minute story," says Jewel. "All the stuff you can't put in a song -- all the subconscious thoughts that motivate actions -- is what acting is. It is fascinating, but I started to realize that I was spending all my days at auditions, and it felt a bit ridiculous. It was going to take so much time and effort to build a second career, and I didn't care enough to fight for it. That's new for me. I used to think that making art was the most important thing, but then I realized that John Steinbeck died alone and Ernest Hemingway killed himself and, you know, what's the point of art if you're not enjoying your life? So I've become a lot more relaxed and let a lot of things go because I want to have a life."
Jewel is planning a seven-week tour with Matchbox Twenty front man Rob Thomas, with a possible Canadian date this month. Check out www.jeweljk.com for details.
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