Amy Ray Quotes & Sayings

“I have so many moments. I am extremely passionate about life and at the same time, I'm always depressed, so everything's always happening at the same time for me. It's the best day and the worst day too.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.”

“I mean, I really, really love playing solo. Definitely, it's like a labor of love, it's not a huge career. It's not that successful, but it's something I love so much that I'll do it regardless.”

“I live in the rural area of North Georgia, so for me, those are these best days. It has little to do with humans and mostly to do with nature and what surrounds me.”

“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.”

“But the reality is that we are a folk band.”

“I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.”