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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.
Amy Ray
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Amy Ray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 12
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Decatur
Georgia
Amy Elizabeth Ray
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When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.
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...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.
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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.
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I do think within any job you do, you have a chance to serve the community.
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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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ahhhh...organic and rich like good soil... makes me want to listen and hear it grow. the songs are honest and dimensional. it's music to my ears.
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Your perspective probably depends on where you live.
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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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When I do solo stuff, when I do anything involving music, it's very collaborative.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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But the reality is that we are a folk band.
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I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.
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Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!
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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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An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.
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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.
Amy Ray