Amy Ray
Amy Ray
Amy Elizabeth Rayis an American singer-songwriter and member of the contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls. She also pursues a solo career and has released six albums under her own name, and founded a record company, Daemon Records...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth12 April 1964
CityDecatur, GA
CountryUnited States of America
stuff solo involving
When I do solo stuff, when I do anything involving music, it's very collaborative.
hurt thinking worth-it
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.
girl writing thinking
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.
book down-and strikes
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.
country thinking rocks
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.
voice important use
It's important to have a voice; it's more important to use it.
cynical idealist
An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.
mean men appreciate
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.
today world dont-change
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.
thinking talking kind
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.
offering listening matter
Majoring in religion, listening to TV evangelists interpret the scriptures and dictate my offerings-I found my God inside myself-in every moment and piece of matter. Everything is animate.
hate long hatred
...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.
hatred insecurity paranoia
Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here.
perspective where-you-live depends
Your perspective probably depends on where you live.