Jewel

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

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

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

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.