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
thinking sexuality gender
Maybe our gender is one thing and our sexuality is another. And that's a cool thing I think.
jobs thinking community
I do think within any job you do, you have a chance to serve the community.
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.
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.
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.
art thinking people
I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.
extremely operate political politics queer
I think our politics are extremely punk. The world that we operate in is still unfortunately more corporate. We can be queer and political but we're still part of the system.
nice planning
We did some planning with them. It was nice to get involved.
song moving book
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.
gay who-i-am levels
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.
self people be-who-you-are
You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.
fall hard-work gay
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.
starting-over people feelings
My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical.