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

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

Your perspective probably depends on where you live.

It's all right if things don't change today. We're gonna keep doing what we do. The world can either catch up or not.

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.

An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.