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
stupid silly people
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.
crazy animal pigs
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.
girl band different
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.
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.