If some event happens and it seems really important to me and moving to me, I'll write it down in my lyric book knowing that it will come out in a song.

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.

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.

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.

But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.

You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's a sin to do that to a good machine.

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool.

I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

We must get going. Tomorrow, tomorrow.

People say, 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like, 'No they won't! They'll ask for specifics.'

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.

I'm healthy and excited to play. And I think this year can be a big year for me if I get the opportunity. I can still play the game. I think I can help a team get to the Super Bowl.