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.

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.

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.

Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.

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

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

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.

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

Tolerance ain't the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was.

I do think within any job you do, you have a chance to serve the community.

An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.

A society where everyone is following his own unique path has a much better chance to find the truth than the society where everyone is following some known cliché paths!

I spend more time with the living, than the dead now.

Yeah... sure you know me...

Families are the compass that guide us.

We're phonies if we're not exactly who we are.

Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.

The ideological foundation of today's business schools is that economic control should be shifted out of government hands into those of financial managers - that is, Wall Street.

The best social reform program in the world is a job.

Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.

Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys.