Amy Ray Quotes

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.

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

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.

Oh God, it’s such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the word. To me, the first thing you have to have is substance and content and real depth.

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.