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.

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

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.

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.

Maybe our gender is one thing and our sexuality is another. And that's a cool thing I think.

At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and it just brought out this thing in me... and it felt very different from the Indigo Girls.

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