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Today's Subjects: ----------------- [EDA] New Interview With Jewel #2 [JewelRocks4real@aol.com] [EDA] Jewel at PBR World Championships (TV repeat) [twh662@juno.com] Re: [EDA] a 200 song CD!! ["Louise" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 20:36:56 EST From: JewelRocks4real@aol.com Subject: [EDA] New Interview With Jewel #2 Heres the other new Jewel interview from http://www.cdnow.com/cgibin/mserver/SID=1311569043/pagename=/RP/GENRES/cms_gen res.html/fid=236837. Jewel plans to work with Trey Parker of South Park??!! :)Dee The singer, in a recent roundtable interview with a group of journalists including a CDNOW reporter, discussed her fame, her critics, and her future, which may or may not include a children's book, a volume of love poetry, and, frighteningly, a collaboration with South Park's Trey Parker. Q: You seem to be held up as a role model more than someone like, say, Madonna. Is that confining in a way, to feel like you always have to live up to that? Does it make you feel like you're not allowed to have a bad day? Jewel: I think we're all held up as role models. I don't think I am more than anybody else, and certainly, I don't think it's how you live your life. I think the best thing I can do is be honest about who I am. My fans pretty much know to expect that from me; they know that when I'm tired I'm incredibly crabby, and when you come up to me you're pretty much gonna get me in whatever mood I'm in, and I'll be honest [about it]. It's hard for me to fake those things, and I don't find much use in doing it. Plus, I live my life in front of people, and it would be terrible pretending [all the time]. It would be hard. Q: Your book is very personal and reveals a lot of private thoughts -- what do you think that does for your privacy? Does it open a door and sort of throw people a bone? It just brings me closer to Jesus. That was a joke. I feel safer the more I reveal and the more honest I can be about it. People find out everything about you anyway ... When I was young, my role models were people who were the most honest in their writing, good and bad. You know, people like Bukowski, Anais Nin, a lot of people where you saw the depravity as well as their fleeting bits of courage. And that made me feel like that was a real role model, somebody that you could style your life after, somebody who had the courage to live life honestly. And I didn't want to leave those things out, because I would feel hypocritical to what I admired as a child. Q: You've done poetry, prose, written songs. How do you decide what ideas you save for a song, as opposed to what becomes a poem? I don't know how I pick. I get asked that question a lot, and I never really have an answer for it, unfortunately. I think you always end up in the same place. If a fan reads a poem or listens to a song, or reads something out of a book b& I think they all take you to the same destination; it's just that the trip of how you get there is very different. I find them to be quite separate. Like, my poetry very rarely translates into song, though I think I have a poetic approach to lyrics, but [poems] hardly ever get turned into lyrics and vice versa. The mediums are real different, and they do different things b& poems affect you in different way than music does. Q: The music world is very different than it was when you released your debut. Have you thought about how you fit into the new scene? I didn't fit into the first scene. I mean, I came out at the height of grunge. "Who Will Save Your Soul" got played in between Nirvana and Soundgarden. I think people tend to respond, with me [at least], to sincerity. I have careers that I admire and that I try to model my career after, looking for longevity. There's not many of those careers, but there are some, like, say, Neil Young, who've remained creatively viable. And I realized that it's not my job to be constant; it's not my job to produce constant hits. My job is to be constantly creative, but I don't think that means that I'll always be number one in the public eye or anything like that, and that's OK. Creativity has rhythms, and I feel like it's my job to be tenacious about pursuing that, and to stick up for that craft more than anything else, and to pursue that craft more than anything else, and to love that craft more than anything else. I think that where that falls in the public standing will fluctuate through the years, and sometimes it'll be more in and sometimes it'll be more out. But I do know that at least I'll have sanity, because of what I've done each time. Q: Were you surprised at how well your poetry book did? It's not as if poetry is usually a huge seller. I think [the publisher] was like, "OK, we'll do the poetry book, but we want the book with all the personal things in it, too, because that'll be the seller." Everybody thought that the poetry book would sell less and this one would sell more, but I don't know. The response I got from my songwriting and what I saw kids wanting, and the response I was getting to those teeny little poems in the back of the first record b& I knew that kids would be touched, that there was a strong emotional hunger in people and that poetry can fill that in a way that I think was pretty unique. And I was glad to see that; it did surprise me. And I was real glad to see the response and to see so many schools instilling poetry programs. I think writing has a lot to offer kids, whether it's music or poems, or prose. Q:Both your last single and Ride with the Devil weren't huge commercial successes. Can you shrug those things off, or does it bug you that success is measured by numbers like that? I don't think it bugs me that it's measured like that. I mean, that's what field I'm in, and I know how it works, but it's not how I internalize it, either. I think Ride with the Devil was an excellent first movie for me, because it was an invaluable partnering for me; it was a mentorship that I think I was incredibly fortunate to benefit from b& I don't know what other people expected, but I know I did a good performance, and I know that I got good feedback on it. Everything else is up to the fates. It's up to how movie houses promote a movie, and there's so many other things involved in it that you don't have any control over, and you can't take it very personally even if you did. I've always tended to do things that I feel very passionate about, as I've said before, and I know I won't always have successes, but I hope I'll always have the courage to do what I believe in. And I'm sure there'll be things that I don't pull off gracefully or graciously, but it'll be because I'm hearing something, I'm trying something, I'm grasping at something, and now I have to do that in front of people. I don't have the luxury of doing it in my own home. [But] to not do something because I fear the critics would be the ultimate sin creatively. Q: Do you have any idea what your next project will be like, or how the next record will sound? I have a Christmas record again this year, called Joy, and I got to sing on Rosie [O'Donnell's] Christmas record [Another Rosie Christmas] which was kind of fun. I'm going to start working on a new record at the beginning of the year. I've finally decided to jump back in. I've been writing music, you know - -- I write all the time. I have no idea what it's going to be like, the record. I've been on the road doing a lot of rock performance stuff, all band-driven stuff, which I've been enjoying a lot. And since I've been off the road, I've been doing a lot of, you know, story telling, quote unquote folk music, and enjoying that a lot. [And] I've been working with friends doing bossa novas and Cuban music, so I have no idea which way the record's gonna go. We'll just see how it goes. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 21:42:22 -0500 From: twh662@juno.com Subject: [EDA] Jewel at PBR World Championships (TV repeat) I think someone mentioned earlier in the week that Jewel sang the National Anthem at the PBR World Championships, taped in Las Vegas, shown on TNN last Sunday night. The same thing seems to be on TNN again this Sunday (12/10) at 9:00pm EST. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 14:09:58 +1100 From: "Louise" Subject: Re: [EDA] a 200 song CD!! EDA's, > > Hey, if anyone was able to compile an mp3 archive of Jewel songs(or > find one), or just give me a site w/ mp3's, i would try and do that(i have a > burner). It sounds like a good idea. > > > -John Well I have 187 Jewel mp3s, give or take a few are different versions or live songs or poems, but I have heaps none the less and I'd love to put them on cd but I have no burner. I'd be happy to make an ftp with them or put them on a website but I have no idea how to. If anyone could help me we could get this huge cd thing going I think. Louise. ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V5 #444 ***************************