Singer and songwriter Jewel recently opened up about her previous divorce and how she coped up with it. Being an artist like herself, Jewel revealed that it was books and writing her music that helped her heal the unfortunate divorce with ex-husband Ty Murray.

The two split last July 2014 after being married for six years and being together for 16 years and although the former married couple are co-parenting their son Kase, Jewel revealed that it was a tough experience.

"The birth of my son really inspired me to make sure I'm the kind of woman I want my son to know, and looking at the places I've been stagnant, looking for things that were lost and reclaiming them. The process of making this record and writing this book really helped facilitate that for me," Jewel told Time of her latest album, "Picking up the Pieces".

"It's funny, most people go through a divorce and are like, why didn't I just get drunk and have meaningless sex?" she hilariously said adding "And I write a memoir and a heartbreaking record, peel off every scab I've ever healed and stick my finger in them and write about it. That's how I dealt with it. But I think it was the best thing I could have done."

Of course, artists, in their personal experiences tend to usually make use of their current emotional state to produce good music like Jewel who revealed "I was going through a divorce, and looking at my entire person and saying, what is my essential self? I don't think there was an area of my life that wasn't touched."

But the biggest revelation is Jewel's memoir titled 'Never Broken' that will be released tomorrow where she opened up about her divorce of course. "I wanted them to come out at the same time. When I do live shows, I do a lot of storytelling and music, and it's hard to get that all in one place unless you do some kind of TV special. They give you the whole story, if you put them together," she shared.

"My number one job was being a mom. My number two job was making sure I was giving enough time to transition Ty and I into a new phase of our relationship with the divorce, and it took a lot of energy to do that. And then my third job was writing the book and doing the record."