Amy Ray Quotes

You just have to let yourself go and not be worried about what other people are going to say or the things that might come out…Just jump right in full force and be as silly and stupid and adolescent and introspective as you want to be.

Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.

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.

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

I have so many moments. I am extremely passionate about life and at the same time, I’m always depressed, so everything’s always happening at the same time for me. It’s the best day and the worst day too.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

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

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.

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

I live in the rural area of North Georgia, so for me, those are these best days. It has little to do with humans and mostly to do with nature and what surrounds me.

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.

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.

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

…and when I am negative, I will be negative only for as long as I have to be, until I can understand it, and then I will be positive…when I hate, I will turn my hatred into energy, when I am angry I will turn my anger into energy…and I will not be complacent.

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.

Yeah, we appreciate our women followng…and I love women. I mean, I just really love women. I love men, too, but you know it’s like sometimes you look up from what you’re doing and you go, ‘I love women.’ There’s just something about them and so, just celebrate it.

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

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

The only thing I have going on at a personal level is just the way I knew I was gay and I knew what that meant inside me, but the gender aspect of who I am came later.

Your perspective probably depends on where you live.

Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.