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

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.

Don't Worry Be Happy

From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.

A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)

Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

Preparedness never caused a war and unpreparedness never prevented one.

You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.

Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.

It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.

Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.