Jewel checked in with her Facebook fans to alert them of a online live show she’ll be doing on Wednesday on Ustream. The singer songwriter says:
I have some exciting news! On April 13th at 2 pm PT I will be performing live via Ustream presented by AT&T and Cisco! I will be playing a few of my songs and answering fan questions afterwards! Be sure to tune in! Can’t wait to see you all there.
Jewel checked in with her Twitter followers (@jeweljk) after being involved in a scary car wreck where the pregnant singer was t-boned by a volunteer fire truck in Stephenville, Texas at around 11 AM central time. Fortunately the impact was on the passenger side door, and apparently the only other passenger was in Jewel’s womb. Check out a photo of the accident at TMZ. She writes:
Hey everyone-just got released from the ER & my doctor’s office- everything is fine-me & the baby are okay – thanks for all your thoughts & prayers
Jewel and her husband Ty Murray tell People magazine they’re having their first child. “I took a pregnancy test and it was positive,” said the 36-year-old singer songwriter, who is in her second trimester. “It was so hard to keep it a secret. I was worried I’d start throwing up on set and everyone would be like, ‘Oh, she’s pregnant.’” The couple are currently remodeling their home, converting the guest room into a nursery for the baby. Read more.
Jewel has posted a video in support of the ‘It Gets Better’ project, where the singer songwriter talked about her first crush being with a guy in high school who was gay, and how a friend told her he wouldn’t be her friend if she remained friends with a gay friend. “It breaks my heart that anybody would want to take their own life for how they are,” Jewel said. “It’s totally fine. It’s okay to be exactly how you are.” Watch the message via YouTube below.
Jewel made a visit to ‘Chelsea Lately’ on Monday night (August 30), talking with host Chelsea Handler about her simplistic camping lifestyle, married life with Ty Murray, going on a cross country motorcycle trip, doing their laundry in the sink, and working on having a baby. “We’re having sex a lot, yeah,” Jewel said. Watch the interview via YouTube below.
In the exclusive premiere of ‘Betwixt The Music’, Jewel tells the story of the band she formed with Sarah Palin and what led to their eventual break up. “Did she steal from me,” Jewel says in the FunnyOrDie.com clip. “Years before she ever did it in real life, did I happen to write a song called ‘Shooting Wolves (From Helicopters)’? I inveted those catchphrases that she says, like pallin’ around, goin’ rogue, you betcha. Just look at my book of poetry, you’re gonna see a lot of Sarah Palin ‘originals’.” Watch it below.
Jewel checked in with fans on her blog at MySpace on Thursday (August 5), taling about how she’s going to motorcycle across America with her husband Ty Murray, leaving a compressed schedule to promote her new album ‘Sweet and Wild’. Jewel writes:
As you guys know, Ty and I did a crazy thing – we decided to ditch work for 2 months and ride our motorcycles across America! Didn’t I just release a new album? Yes I did! Shouldn’t I be out there promoting it more? Probably! But I have been making and releasing albums and touring my tail feathers off for so long that there has never been time to do something like this! So Ty and I thought if we don’t do it now, we never will! We just have to make the time!
With that thought in mind, I planned this summer’s album launch and tour to be very intense and very packed together, allowing myself to take these two months off.
Jewel checked in with fans on her blog at MySpace on Wednesday (July 28), discussing her tricks of the trade and how she always is pushing herself as a songwriter and expand her boundaries to multiple genres of music. The 36-year-old writes:
I live in Texas because I think it keeps me grounded. I did not want to get distracted by fame or believe in my own hype. The worst thing for a writer is to become arrogant. When you think you know everything, you can’t listen, and if you don’t listen you don’t learn, and if you aren’t learning, you are starving the one thing a writer needs most. I push myself to learn all the time. I read a lot and watch the world around me so I can keep growing as a writer. Most songwriters quit writing well in their 20s. Yet most novelists are the opposite – they do their best work in their 50s and beyond. I think a lot of that has to do with the lifestyle of these two groups.
I take writing very seriously, and it has been a goal to be more than just a ‘hit’ artist, but to be one that produces great writing and who grows as a singer and writer. That’s why I have pushed myself so hard to expand my boundaries. To write pop, country, rock. To explore dance, to write poems and short stories and fiction. I won’t let my creative life be stifled by genre or formula or any boundaries.
Jewel updated fans on her blog at MySpace on Thursday (July 22), discussing her Star Light Cafe Tour and writing a song for each stop on the June trek. The singer songwriter tells readers:
I spent my entire youth on the road – from when I was a kid singing and touring my home state of ….Alaska…., to when I got signed at 18 opening for others bands, doing 40 cities every 30 days, 4 and 5 shows a day for years. Then when I made it big I toured the world nonstop. When I released an album I toured for 2 years nonstop in Asia, ..Australia.., ..Europe.. and the states, then I’d make another album and do it again. When I met my husband and we started getting serious, I took a moment to look at a lot of my peers. A lot of the musicians I idolized lived on the road and it seemed like their personal lives may have suffered for it. I didn’t want music to be the only great thing in my life. So I did something that isn’t very popular in my business – I downsized. I turned things down. I made less money. I worked less. But what I gained was a balanced lifestyle that allows me to pay attention to more than just music. I still tour and make music, but I don’t mind doing it on a smaller, more livable scale.
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Jewel checked in with fans on her blog at MySpace on Wednesday (July 14), talking about how she channels creativity. The singer songwriter tells readers:
People sometimes ask how I channel creativity – be it writing songs, short stories or poems, painting or drawing. I don’t have to choose what I will do on any given day because it chooses me. It’s hard to describe – kind of like describing the difference between thirst and hunger. They are both strong impulses, but impossible to describe the subtle difference that causes you to reach for a glass instead of a spoon. That’s how it is with my art. One day I feel hungry to write poems. It’s just quiet. There is no melody to distract and I can focus on the distilled emotion that poetry lets me capture. Other times I find my hand reaching for a guitar, and I can feel a song wanting to be born. I just try to keep my mind still and get out of its way – and when I do, they bubble up quicker than I can write them down.
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