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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.

I mean, in the course of an evening, people will take a solo here and there, but generally it's all about the rhythm of that music. Dealing with the rhythm with everything. That's essentially at least my concept of what that group is.

I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.

People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.

I realized I was a girl playing with all of these great musicians, but race and gender never did cross my mind, really, until other people started talking about them. They weren't really an issue for me.

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.