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

Your perspective probably depends on where you live.

There are a lot of people who that you may only nod to; it's better to stop and say hello.

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.

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.