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

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.

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

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.

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 feel like there are a lot of people doing a lot of hard work. I think it’s too early to judge, and I don’t think the gay community is in any way falling short.

People that are much younger in areas that are much more, kind of, disenfranchised, I guess, as far as the gay movement goes, they still have a language that they’ve discovered around things. And they have a vocabulary to use, and they have a way to express themselves even when they’re not accepted.

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

When I do solo stuff, when I do anything involving music, it’s very collaborative.

I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I’m going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It’s a kind of discipline.