My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical.

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.

MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT.

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.

At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.

In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

People put you down because you're above them.

All property is theft, except mine.

So many of us have separated ourselves from our source and have lived on ego consciousness.