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Today's Subjects: ----------------- * Transcript to Jewel's interview on Exhale - Part 3 of 3 [Sabato229@aol.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 20:26:15 EST From: Sabato229@aol.com Subject: * Transcript to Jewel's interview on Exhale - Part 3 of 3 **Exhale Transcript** part 3 of 3 JK: I don't talk about it much cause I kind'a hate bonding with people over pain and I also didn't want'a hurt the people that, you know, that it all happened with. But, you know, divorce is never easy, and being a single father isn't easy, and it's not.....you know, it wasn't the most graceful transition in the world. Umm... and there was a lot of things that, you know, I had to work through and I'm still working through with all that, but I felt like I was given the tools to over come it, you know? I felt like I was given, ahh... free thought and I was taught to be a thinking person and I think that gift is more important than anything. Because I think it's what sort'of frees you to over come anything your given. And, ummm.... writing as well, I went through phases where ... you know, I remember like with my mom, when I moved back with my mom, I suddenly had a parent. My dad was really like "sure go stay with who ever you want, just call me when you get back", I was sort of like a little adult....you know...and suddenly I had a mom going "no be back by a certain time" and I was like "AH-HA"! You know, REALLY?! Ummm and so there's, I think, a kind of a bumpy transition where I would sneak out to clubs and those kind of things...ride home with men who shouldn't be driving, and CB: JK: You know, those kinds of things where you look back on your life and go I'm so glad I'm still alive, and we didn't get in a car crash or something. CB: Umm... I feel like that too...ummm... JK: CB: Uhh, your parents sound like they gave you an enormous amount of tools, that you've used, umm brilliantly. Ummm... your so undaunted when you perform did you learn that then? When you... JK: Yeah CB: were so small? JK: It's been an evolution...my dad's a great performer. I mean my dad's really good on being on stage and if nobody is listening, cause everybody's just, you know, drinking and talking, he'll make up songs on the spot about people and they'll suddenly be going "is he talking about me"? And he'll tell stories and he'll change a set-list so that if people came in tired, they just want to have fun, he'll do that. If they come in and they want to be heart broken, he'll do that. So I learned those kinds of skills, that I used when I opened for Peter Murphy from Bailhouse, which is a goth band, one of my first tours was that. And, you know, it was me standing in front of a bunch of kids, with vampire fangs, you know, going I'm Sensitive and singing, you know, faggot off of Pieces of You, you know? It was like.... CB: JK: But because that bar background, I was just like "hey, shut up, hey listen." And if you can't win 'em over like that like that tape you saw, you just keep singing anyway , you know? CB: Ahhh... that tape in Norway...... Oh,that was traumatic just watching it, they were yelling and you were just so focused, I was so impressed. Ummm. how is it, do you still have a relationship with your brothers? Is it difficult to maintain that? Because of distance, because of this elephant in the room which is become your success? JK: Right.....no,actually it's been really good. Umm,my brothers and I weren't real close after the divorce because it sort'of, I think divorce just fractures a family and all of a sudden every kid is going how am i going to survive? How am I going to get through it? My brothers and I weren't real close. Umm, and my older brother moved out pretty young, and I moved out on my own when I was 16, so... you know, it was one of those things but over the years we've gotten a lot closer and my older brother works with me now and little brother writes songs and plays guitar and is just really talented and he's about to get married. And we've actually become a lot closer and they've never flinched, actually, at fame or anything like that. CB: Is it hard to find inspiration for songs when you, when you ah, I would imagine come increasingly isolated by your success? Are you able to move about in the world and have experiences that can feed you inspiration? JK: I don't guess I've ever had, the only time I've had a problem being inspired is when I stopped being romanced by life. Like my poetry dies when that happens you know, cause I, like the last year or something I haven't been writing as much poetry as I used too, which to me is a real big sign. And I don't think that has as much to do with my fame or my isolation as it had to do with I starting to feel disconnected, and mistrustful as my fame grew....ummm,and I have been working through that. But it is a weird thing when you know, fame is supposed to be so glamorous. You always hear about like "Ohh, the lifestyles of the rich and famous" and the party's and...I... I moved around, like a different school every year since I was a kid so I never had friends in school and then being famous now I'm always on the road. You know,I'm never at a party, I'm never .... CB:Being on the road sure doesn't sound glamorous. JK: Yea, I don't think it really is really glamorous.....I love doing shows. But getting to the shows is really hard. And I haven't really made any more friends than I ever have, I have a few great friends, which I like, but...... CB: And you've been able to keep you close friends? JK: You know, I didn't make any friends until I was about 18 or 19 you know, Steve Poltz, who wrote You Were Meant for Me,with me, is one of my best friends's. and I have maybe one or two other friends and that's really it. It's not like suddenly your friends with you know, Mick Jagger, or you know, it's not like suddenly everybody is calling you going "Jewel you have to come to my party" you know,"We'll fly you there" CB: CB:Mmm, your poetry book, which just had 15 printings, right Jewel. JK: Hmm,mm CB: Well done...do you work through some of it in your poetry and in your songs? Is that how you work through all of these conflicts and dilemmas? JK: Yea, I work through it less in my songs and more in my poetry. My poetry is like has always been very personal and very like makes me working things out. CB: Ahh.... do you do you want to read,hmm,cause we were talking about being on the road and ummm, I thought this poem that you wrote called Tai Pei, well theres Tai Pei one,two and three JK: Right CB:But, hmmm... I thought it was ummm, it was... JK: Should I read the whole thing or part of it or? CB: You just want to read just like the second half of it? JK:Hmm.....mmmm, I am the strange her, with no language but my pen. Sex fills the air. It is humid and ancient. Many lovers have been taken here, taken down exalted, fallen, risen kissed by the purple finger that seeks the plum blossomed Love. I have no Lover only my pen and an answering machine back in the states which no one calls. I am told I am adored by millions but no one calls. JK: CB: Ah,well now Jewel.... JK: Awww, CB: this is really sad JK:: There is happy ones in there CB: It's true... JK: It was a bad night... CB: Ok, as long as you get out of it.... JK: I hired a male prostitute CB: CB: So, in Tai Pei, ah, I was in Tai Pei and I don't want to even tell you, ahh... but, ah ... the person all the guys were going to visit was called the "banana lady". Take it from there JK: CB:You... you've always taken a very public anti-drug stand. Is ...has this always been the case? Based on what you saw, based on what you just always instinctively felt, based on growing up where you did? JK: I'm not real rigid hmm....about it. Like I didn't mean to take a anti-drug thing,statement. But I can't drink cause of my kidney's. so I don't think its ever been a real big option for me cuz my health is a little bit, it's just fragile enough that I've never been able to abuse my body. I also am not a person who enjoys losing control over my mental capacity, so I never enjoyed a buzz hmm,the way I think some people enjoy it. Mm,and I also just feel like it distracts me. I am a very efficient person, and if I have to learn something I want to get to learning it and I've always felt like drinking or drugs would take me down a side road that I'd have to come off of and get back to learning. Hmm, but I am not ah, you know, I'm in the music business, all my friends drink and you know, there's lots of pot around and those kind of things. It's just something I've never really been that into. Hmm though I have been drunk and those things but I've just never been real experimental. CB: When you mm,leave here are you going back to San Diego? Or are you going back to Texas? JK: My boyfriend is a bull rider. So ahh, there's this thing called the PBR, have you heard of it? No... JK: CB: Would the R stand for rodeo? JK: Professional Bull Rider's... actually. It's a bull riding organization, it's separate from the rodeo. CB: I haven't heard of it... but I'd like to hear about it. JK: It's really neat it's ....there, there, it's really a neat ...ah,sport. Umm, CB: So how do you meet a guy who is a bull rider? JK: At a rodeo..... CB: Well, that's logical.... JK: Hmm, I met him at a rodeo in Denver actually. And hmm... CB: He sounds like a really successful bull rider if he has a 2,000 acre ranch. JK: He is! He is the most, the most successful probably cowboy ever, in the history of cowboying. He is really, really, talented at it.. I mean,.he does rough stock,bareback and saddle-bronc as well as bull-riding. CB: Oh, this sounds very neat... JK It's been really fun, it's been really neat.... cuz we have, you know,real similar backgrounds about being raised around the outdoors. But he's also famous in is own field that my fame isn't freaked him out or anything like that. CB: So when your there, do you go riding your in the, what do they have in Texas, prairies? JK: Right ah, the hills, yeah he's been teaching me to team rope, steer and we've just been riding and I've spent a lot of time around riding. CB: So you can control the rope? and, JK: Hmmm CB: Oh Boy.... JK: Well, I'm getting good at it. CB: Well thank you, thank you so much. JK: Thank You, it's, it's nice that you guys have a program like this where you can actually talk. I really appreciate it. CB: Ahh, if you change the channel Jewel's not going to sing. So..we'll be right back. JK: *** CB: Ladies & Gentlemen, or ladies.....Jewel. I will meet you.... In some place..... where the light lends itself to soft repose. I will let you... undress me.. but I warn you, I have thorns like any rose... And you can hurt me... with your me bare hands. You could hurt me...using the sharp end... of what you say... But I'm lost to you now..... and theres no amount.... of reason... That could save..... me... So break.... me.... Take.... me... Just let me.... feel your arms... again.... Break.... me.... make.... me.... Just let me.... feel your love... again.... Feels like being underwater ... Now that I've let go & lost control Water kisses.... fill my mouth... Water,oohhh... fills my soul...... So break.... me ... Take..... me... Just let me... feel your love again.... Take.... me.... I'll let you... Make... me... Just let me... feel your love... again......... Kiss me once... well.. maybe twice.... Ohhh, it never felt... so.... nice..... Sooo.... break.....me... Take.....me....ohh... Let me feel your arms again..... Break..... me .... I'll.... let me... just let me feel your love again..... Just let me... feel your love Aaaa.... ....gain....... CB: Beautiful,Jewel.... JK: Thank You. CB: Thank you soo much. Stay with us, we'll be right back. ....Ohh, Beautiful JK: Thank You *** CB: Before we go......I'd be your best friend if you yodel!? JK: You haven't been yet? CB: I am ...I am, I'm a convert. JK: It's funny, I get more requests for yodeling.I'm writing a book, a second book right now, and like I've actually gotten requests to write about how I started yodeling, and things and it's really odd... CB: Well it so exotic.... JK: It's odd.... CB: It's so surprising JK: We used to sing in hmm, Eskimo Villages when I was a kid. And we did yodeling contests, and these Eskimo villages were dry, no alcohol was allowed, and our,ah, our prize was a bottle of sparkling apple cider and they thought it was alcohol and they started, you know, riot in the village cuz they were trying to trample us to get to the bottle of wine.....so it's funny I never thought yodeling way back then... would become such a thing now. CB: 'Cause your family is Swiss and your father and Grandfather taught you to yodel? JK: Yep....hmmm.....ok, Yodel (she does about a 9 second yodel) CB: AHH!! JK: CB: Thank You, JK: Thank You CB: Thank You So much for being with us. Umm, don't forget to visit us on Oxygen online. Thanks for being with us tonight. Good Night. ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V5 #98 **************************