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

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.

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.

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

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