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.

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.

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.

Peering around her, I took note exactly where the hundred metre high cliff started. i didn't want to be taking an unexpected flying lesson today.

In the story, which is only a few chapters long in Genesis, Noah never even speaks until after the flood - but when you have Russell Crowe, you're going to make him speak.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

The deeper the pit, the more humor you need to dig yourself out of it.

I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus.

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be

I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?