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Today's Subjects: ----------------- Jewel on KISS FM, interview transcript [SeattleEDA@aol.com] To the few cocky angels out there.... [NiKoS12@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 17:44:06 EST From: SeattleEDA@aol.com Subject: Jewel on KISS FM, interview transcript Hey, Here is, for all who wanted it, the transcript to last week’s KISS Jewel interview in Seattle. I am still willing to make copies, trade, and send out a free tape to anyone who is willing to make five or more copies for others. Please reply to SeattleEDA@aol.com. Thank you. ****************************************************************************** ******************* CHRIS: I’m just exited because Jewel is here. DANA: We can see that. Chris: Jewel is ready, Jewel is all set to go. We got her for an hour, now you have to figure out what she’s having for breakfast. That’s how you’re going to win tickets to go see the Goo Goo Dolls at the Moor theater this weekend. DANA: You got it, this Saturday. CHRIS: All right, and that’s fine, Jewel has her breakfast in hand right now. JEWEL: [laughing] okay, like I can eat, though. Hello? Chris: Hello? Hello? JEWEL: Hi there, how are you? CHRIS: Very good, how about you? JEWEL: [really cheery voice] I’m good thank you very much! Chris: It’s a- Chris and Dana at KISS in Seattle JEWEL: Oh, lovely. Chris: Nice to talk to you. JEWEL: Nice to talk to you as well. [All of the time there is rustling in the background] JEWEL: I’m, uh, sorting out breakfast here, sorry. [laughing] CHRIS: All right, go ahead. You’ve got the right. You’ve gotten us about an extra 100,000 listeners every time your song plays. That’s fine. JEWEL: Really!? I love it! CHRIS: It sounds good, we’re hungry we’ve been up since 3:30, of course doing the morning show, what are you having? JEWEL: Uh, a beep-beep I’m negotiating right now with, uh, cheese. [laughing] [Still plenty of rustling in the background] CHRIS: Did you find a lot of beep-beep when you where growing up in Homer, Alaska? [laughs] JEWEL: You know, very many, they grew on trees there, actually. [Everyone laughs] Dana: Great! CHRIS: She’s a smart alek, I like it! DANA: Uh, huh! You’re going to need a dealing with Chris who absolutely adores you, that you start fights at his home in between he and his wife. JEWEL: [surprised] Really!? Chris and Dana: Yes! CHRIS: I, I admit to it, I am, uh, I am enthralled with your talent and intelligence. DANA: Mmm, hmm. CHRIS: And then of course, you’re not bad lookin’, but in that order. JEWEL: [laughs] DANA: He loved the National Anthem. JEWEL: Oh thank you very much, lip synching is hard. [Everyone laughs] DANA: Well, he wasn’t watching your lips though- JEWEL: [interrupts] don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Chris: No, I won’t, I won’t Jewel- [laughs] CHRIS: So Jewel, It’s good to have you on 106.1 here in Seattle. thank you very much for, uh, talking with us this morning. JEWEL: My pleasure! Chris: Uh, lets talk about the new CD first of all, because the song “Hands” has driven Dana crazy to the point where she has said, ‘the only question I’m going to ask Jewel is what is the meaning of “Hands.” JEWEL: [laughs] Umm- the meaning behind “Hands”, hmm- I wrote it about hmm- There’s a couple ways to explain it. CHRIS: All right. JEWEL: When I was a kid, I would drive the tractor, you know, around the fields um, cutting the hay and you’re on the tractor for several hours, there’s nothing else to do besides really stare at your little hands under the wheel, and it always really daunt me that, the eyes are really, oh, the eyes! Hello?! The eyes are under the soul. The hands are the servant of the mind. They really carry out the tasks of whatever you tell them to do, and I realize whole days would go by without me even thinking about myself, its like driving down the road on a freeway, and you get several exits down the road an you’re like, who’s been driving for the last five miles? CHRIS: Right, right. DANA: Uh, huh. JEWEL: And so I was wondering who on earth... [laughs] I mean, what happened for those last three days when I wasn’t thinking about myself who was, you know, telling me what to do?! I mean, did I hurt people accidentally? Or mad at me, I mean I just had no clue! I wasn’t living very consciously and it made me really want to live more consciously ‘cause at least that way you could be in control of your own actions, uh, and aware of them. Which is a very powerful tool, um, I know a lot of kids including myself who’ve felt very overwhelmed with how on earth do you, you know, feel like you can effect your own life and not just be a victim of your circumstances, at the mercy of circumstance. Much less, how do you help, you know, the state of people’s minds in the world, Um, I think one of the first steps is really taking responsibility for yourself, um, being conscious and very thoughtful of your actions and of your thoughts because, you know, basically all physical actions in the world stem from, the thought which is the motive. The motive; the motivating factor, um, so the more thoughtfully people can live, of course, the better off they are. So that’s kind of one answer, if that wasn’t too long and boring- Chris and Dana- Oh, no, no, no! Chris: Does it make you more introspective opposed to laws like you said when you were younger, I mean. JEWEL: Um , I think of certain amount of introspective is good, you know, I’m a very introspective person but I’m also, you know, quite outgoing and normal [laughs] CHRIS: [laughs] I understand you like to mediate even if its only, uh, a short time each day you do that also as a from of meditation? JEWEL: Um, I’m but a real strict person, I think, you know, spirituality is sort of a real easy thing, you know. we all have spirits its not like a person has to try and be spiritual. As long as you’re saying ‘why aren’t I happy?’ even if you’re agnostic, you’re investing in your spiritualism. And if you are saying. ‘I hurt someone’s feelings, I better apologize,’ that’s investing your spiritualism. Its not like you have to, like, jump on one leg and lick your finger, and hope you’re struck by, like, lightning or something. CHRIS: [laughs] JEWEL: Um, I think everything beyond that, you know, just helps you find your center. Um, meditation, prayer, silence, um, reading things help and are tools but I’m not real strict about it. I think that all religions, you know, have very similar principles and lead, I think, to the same place of religious tolerance, of course very important, and some times, you know. I’ll just sort of think about myself and just sit there and stare, you know, it varies. CHRIS: All right, Jewel, hang on with us this morning on the Chris and Dana morning show at 106.1, so far, I’m enjoying, DANA: Yeah, uh-huh, like I said, we’ve noticed. CHRIS: I like that laugh... DANA: Mmm-hmm. would you cover yourself up please??? CHRIS: All right, what’s she having for breakfast besides my neck? DANA: You wish!!! [Now they take callers, who guess what Jewel is having for breakfast, nobody guesses, and they punish us with a traffic report ;-)] Dana: Now earlier when we were talking about life on the tractor we had a woman call us that I’ve met several times named April who claims she use to baby-sit you, do you recall that? JEWEL: April? Dana: In Homer, Alaska. JEWEL: I was pretty young probably, though? CHRIS: Yeah, yeah. She says she knows your parents pretty well and she said they were really good people. And that she remembers you and she is all gushing every time something comes out or a new song, she always calls us up and tells us about the old times in, uh, Homer, Alaska. JEWEL: [whisper] Don’t believe me (her?) she beat me!!! [Everyone laughs] JEWEL: I’m kidding. No, I’m kidding. April was a very good baby-sitter. [laughs] CHRIS: Well she claims to have been so of course she’s one of my heroes because you’re one of my heroes. [Jewel laughs] CHRIS: Uh- JEWEL: I don’t actually have a recollection but, CHRIS: Well we’ll have to check out, and maybe we can get some other stuff and let your publicist know about it later on, we can get a confirmation. [Jewel laughs] CHRIS: We’ve also been told that on certain songs that you have done you hate the way you sound. Is that true? JEWEL: [laughs] Yeah. DANA: Which ones? JEWEL: Well, you know on “Who Will Save Your Souls” . CHRIS: Mmh, hmm. JEWEL: I go, its like Kermit the frog, “ Who Will sa-ve your souls” [using the bass] [everyone laughs] JEWEL: That part sounds like, yeah. [Chris and Jewel do Kermit the frog impressions] CHRIS: Very funny, that’s interesting to me. You know what, maybe not though, huh, you can’t be your own words criticized. You wouldn’t be as successful as you are today. JEWEL: Well, you know, Pieces of You, just wasn’t meant to do this well. You know, I didn’t make a record that had the bed corners tucked in, its a pretty awkward record and that’s just ‘cause I though it was going to be this kind of underground thing, that sold maybe 30,000 copies and do a real record for the world to hear. So I didn’t care too much. I was just trying to get a snapshot of who I was at age 19. Which I accomplished amidst a very honest record. SO the growth you see on my new record “Spirit” is very sincere growth with my singing, my writing, and just mainly my comfort with singing in a studio, and things like that were real hard for me that why I sang funny on “Who Will Save Your Soul” and stuff. Um, that ways its grown. Its kinda like, Pieces of You doing this well is like this little alley dog winning the West Minister Dog Show, it just shouldn’t have happened. It’s kind of bizarre. DANA: SO what are your expectations for this new album, “Spirit,” then? JEWEL: Um, you know, I feel like I did my job. I wrote a record that I felt honest about, and that I wrote for reason that are very inset to who I am and that I think will talk to kids, and that I see in the world, that uh, kids want to hear as well. And what people are thinking about, that I come across in my shows and in my family, so that’s my expectation. Whether it sells or doesn’t sell I think is in someone else’s hands. I’ll let it touch (?) what its suppose to touch, I don’t really y have goals like “I must conquer the world, and all must follow me,” or anything like that. [laughs] CHRIS: Does it frighten you that your obviously to be intelligent, but you have a grasp of reality that is far greater then a lot of people your age or even older that you? Do you some time, do you sit back and go ‘why is this happening’ or ‘why has it happened? JEWEL: Yeah, there’s been times in my life, like in High School when I just didn’t fit in very well. You know, going to parties or slumber parties where a joke I would never get punch line to. [laughs] But now I feel real thankful because I did allow myself to stay very thoughtful as a child and just stay alive. Stay thinking. Stay, uh, hopeful instead of bitter and now its all really paying off. You know, I’m able to be of some use, and I think that’s to me the most gratifying thing it makes me think I can live everyday feeling like I have a purpose, when I was in my care I felt most frustrated by that. CHRIS: Okay, hang on Jewel. We’ll get back and rap up and get our final talk with ya, this hour as we have breakfast with Jewel. We’re still asking for what? DANA: Its driving me nuts, we want to know what she’s eating for breakfast. The hint is it has cheese in it. [They take more callers] [break] CHRIS: Before we get to Jewel, she’s waiting by, she’s been with us all hour, Jewel you’re a sweetheart, if I could hug you, I would, but I’d probably be thrown in jail after the hug. Uh, what is she having for breakfast? The whole time she’s been with us. [They take more callers, one correctly guesses Jewel is having a breakfast burrito] D; All right, lets get back to the last little segment we have with Jewel. CHRIS: You’re uh, record ducts that push the records for ya the CDs have spread a rumor that your mother was singing backround on the “Spirit” CD. Is that right? JEWEL: Yeah, she’s singing on “Hands”, she sings backround vocals, but she has her own song it um the fourteenth track called “Little Bird” and I do harmony with her. CHRIS: Really?! JEWEL: Yeah, its a lullaby she use to sing when I was a little girl. By the way she has a lovely voice. CHRIS: What was that like though, I mean, you know, um, my mom was a world champion figure skater when I was a kid. And I skated and it was very hard to take lessons from my mother and learn how to skate, your like okay, and you know, parents lose patience with you, has it ever been that kind of relationship with her? JEWEL: My dad was more like that, my mom sort of unfailingly um patient, she’d never assume anything about me. She’d always ask me who I was, and she was always unusual type of person. My dad, you know, was great at teaching other people, he’s a music teacher, with his own kids, of course, its typical you know, that you get most frustrated. CHRIS: Right. You have good genes then, would you agree? Or would you say it was more you then anything else. JEWEL: [laughs] Its all me! CHRIS: I do like your genes, I want you to know that! [Everyone laughs] JEWEL: You know, I’m definitely not the most talented in my family, my brother, plays amazing instruments, they all write. All my aunts and uncles, you know, are charismatic and talented, play every instrument. You know, I’m just a link on a chain. Chris: You know, that’s interesting, what grade humility you have also? JEWEL: It’s not humility, its just realist, if you saw my family, you’d go, ‘yup. she’s right’ [laughs] CHRIS: Or maybe you owe money or something... I want to know about this Civil War movie now. That we’ve been hearing a lot of rumors about. That your going to be acting in and they specifically wrote you into this or they felt you were perfect for this. Is it true or false? JEWEL: It is true. The movie is called Ride With the Devil, and its an Ang Lee film, and they didn’t write me into the part, its just I fit into the part well. Turns out the character has a chipped tooth and a scar, and I seemed to fit that bill very well [laughs] They were also hoping I could act. [everyone laughs] CHRIS: Very funny. Thank you so much you’ve been.., JEWEL: Thank you guys very much. CHRIS: You’ve been a great guest. Thank you there, and continue, good luck. JEWEL: Take care! CHRIS: Take care. There she is she was here and now she’s gone. My heart is broken. DANA: I forgot to ask her about her teeth. So much money, why don’t you ever get your teeth fixed??? CHRIS: I think her teeth look fine. DANA: I know you do. CHRIS: Well maybe I wasn’t looking at her teeth. DANA: Yeah. CHRIS: She’s got that Homer, Alaska look. You know. Guys like that. DANA: [laughing] Homer, Alaska look!? How do you know hoe people from Homer, Alaska look except her! [End of interview.} ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 23:11:02 EST From: NiKoS12@aol.com Subject: To the few cocky angels out there.... A few people on the list hold themselves too high in their own minds. I often hear these few say "Mariah fans suck," or "We were told by so and so that we were the most delightful fan group they've ever dealt with." I also disklike the way in which a couple of people have claimed themselves to be more than just her fans, and how it'd be such a bad thing to become anything less than "Jewel's little charity workers." Why can't we just be a fan group? Why do we have to be so charitble? They claim to be a caring, and insightful, yet they are as closed minded as you can get. This group may have been great in it's charity in the past, but these limited few are just plain annoying. And another thing I dislke about these few people is the way they have Jewel under a microscope 24/7. For one, I don't care what Jewel wears, or if her musical style has changed. I wouldn't give a damn if she painted her hair blue and had a sex change. What she stands for, and what she's done to help alter many of our lives is what I cherish most about her. Through her own identity struggle, and traumas, she's come to be one of the most caring, sincere, and real people to have ever lived. But she too, falls victim to Fashion. Just as everyone else here has. Pieces of You was just what it proclaimed on the cover, "Simple. Human. Honest." Spirit is absolutely gorgeous. In all it's messages, and hidden meanings. Those of you wishing that Spirit was a Pieces of You II and not liking Spirit for all it's glory are missing a great work of art. Listening to "Fat Boy," the only solo-acoustic song on Spirit , makes me see how quiet the album would be if all of these songs were acoustic, Jewel-and-her-guitar type songs. I think Fat Boy is the only song that the "Jewel-and-her-guitar" style really has an effect. It's a lullaby-sounding song. Could you imagine "Down So Long" as an acoustic track. I thought not! In conclusion, give Jewel a break. Don't be so close-minded. ANd i think this list would be bettered if we all went out and got enemas :). Lawnmowers and honey, LEE ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V3 #668 ***************************