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

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

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.

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

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.

Your perspective probably depends on where you live.

I mean, I really, really love playing solo. Definitely, it's like a labor of love, it's not a huge career. It's not that successful, but it's something I love so much that I'll do it regardless.