Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.

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.

An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.

I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.

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.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.