3:56
- culture
- May 8, 2020
Sheryl Crow: 'Joy is what keeps me younger.'
"Joy is what keeps me younger."
Video by Will Linendoll, Brittany Berkowitz, Nidhi Singh
3:56
When Crow was in the second grade, the budding artist got her first pair of glasses, an accessory she was so excited to have considering her sisters also had glasses.
But the glasses didn't exactly meet her expectations.
\"From the moment I put them on I hated them,\" she said.
Years later, she would come to learn how much the glasses didn't really matter in the long run.
Crow grew up in a musical era that included Jimi Hendrix, Aerosmith and the Rolling Stones. Back then, the young Crow was heavily into pop, until she hit junior high, where she became fully invested in the Rolling Stones.
Little did she know she would open for her favorite band down the road on their 1997 Bridges to Babylon world tour.
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\"It's really strange when I think back about all the people that I listened to as a kid,\" she said. \"Then, you know, 25 years later I meet them and I'm playing with them and I'm friends with them.\"
Crow looks back, telling her younger self she has much to experience and look forward to other than stressing about her glasses and crooked teeth.
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In many of her stage performances, Crow says she's always had a \"giant toothy smile,\" something she credits to Colgate's Optic White Renewal for keeping it healthy.
That smile has been especially prominent in the last 10 years.
\"I think just after having had breast cancer and on I've really been acutely aware of joy and gratitude,\" she said.
Not many people love seeing themselves grow older and seeing their body change over time. To counter that, Crow said there is a liberation in embracing growing older.
She credits joy to keeping her young adding that she'd rather \"spend a little less time in front of the mirror, and a little more time out and enjoying life.\"
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