An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.

The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.

...and when I am negative, I will be negative only for as long as I have to be, until I can understand it, and then I will be positive...when I hate, I will turn my hatred into energy, when I am angry I will turn my anger into energy...and I will not be complacent.

When I do solo stuff, when I do anything involving music, it's very collaborative.

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here.

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.