An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.

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.

I wish I didn’t have a heart that God wrote Sad on.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.

Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing. The capacity for deep literary engagement is changing.

It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.

I really don't like talking about diets.

Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus.

It's so easy to think that your strengths don't matter.

The first thing Jesus tells the church of Ephesus that He loves about them is they have sound doctrine.

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.