Amy Ray Quotes

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.

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.

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.

At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and it just brought out this thing in me... and it felt very different from the Indigo Girls.

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.

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'm not really thinking about what I'm talking about or what I'm willing to achieve. I'm just kind of letting it come out, recording it.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

There are a lot of people who that you may only nod to; it's better to stop and say hello.

We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free.

I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.

Majoring in religion, listening to TV evangelists interpret the scriptures and dictate my offerings-I found my God inside myself-in every moment and piece of matter. Everything is animate.

ahhhh...organic and rich like good soil... makes me want to listen and hear it grow. the songs are honest and dimensional. it's music to my ears.

Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!

I think you just have to take the bad with the good and you're going to get hurt more, but it's worth it.

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

Your perspective probably depends on where you live.

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

Maybe our gender is one thing and our sexuality is another. And that's a cool thing I think.

I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.

An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.

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

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

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