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I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.
Amy Ray
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Amy Ray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 12
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Mandolinist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Decatur
Georgia
Amy Elizabeth Ray
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My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical.
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When I do solo stuff, when I do anything involving music, it's very collaborative.
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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.
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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.
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The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.
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We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free.
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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.
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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.
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People that are much younger in areas that are much more, kind of, disenfranchised, I guess, as far as the gay movement goes, they still have a language that they've discovered around things. And they have a vocabulary to use, and they have a way to express themselves even when they're not accepted.
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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.
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But the reality is that we are a folk band.
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There are a lot of people who that you may only nod to it's better to stop and say hello.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's important to have a voice it's more important to use it.
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An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.
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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.
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