It's important to have a voice; it's more important to use it.

An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.

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

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.

When I do solo stuff, when I do anything involving music, it's very collaborative.

Majoring in religion, listening to TV evangelists interpret the scriptures and dictate my offerings-I found my God inside myself-in every moment and piece of matter. Everything is animate.

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.