Your perspective probably depends on where you live.

People that are much younger in areas that are much more, kind of, disenfranchised, I guess, as far as the gay movement goes, they still have a language that they've discovered around things. And they have a vocabulary to use, and they have a way to express themselves even when they're not accepted.

I grew up in the South and once you get raised on Jesus, it is kind of always a part of you even if you are a pagan, really.

I think you just have to take the bad with the good and you're going to get hurt more, but it's worth it.

I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways.

I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I’m going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It’s a kind of discipline.

When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.