But the reality is that we are a folk band.

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

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.

I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.

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.

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.

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.