74 Quotes by Amy Ray

An idealist who couldn’t cope becomes cynical.

When I’m writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I’m in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won’t work for more than 2 hours at a time. I’ll work for a couple hours and take a break.

Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don’t belong here.

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.

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

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.

The best days I have are usually days where I’m out in the woods and something happens, like I see an amazing animal like a fox, or I get a glimpse of a wild pig or something that I never see. Or crazy things happen.

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.

If you’re a teacher, for instance, there are ways to have positive representation of gay people in the classroom. Making sure that, historically, people are noted and archived, and that kids are getting just positive images of people who are gay.