Quotes About Indigo Girls

Billy Pilgrim music is very emotional. It's one part the craft we learned from people like the Indigo Girls and R.E.M., and one part the Tom Waits craft, where you're trying to create a moment.

It's really important to me to promote worthy causes. But not in a heavy, obligatory, responsibility way. I really admired that as a kid, learning about the 'Elton John AIDS Foundation.' And I was obsessed with The Indigo Girls. And they are the consummate activist group, always reaching out, especially to Native causes and things like that.

In New York, Aleka's Attic also played a "Rock Against Fur" benefit for the animal-rights group PETA, on a bill with the B–52's, the Indigo Girls, Lene Lovich, and Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go's. For this cause, River allowed his name to be on the poster. Martha Plimpton introduced the band, proclaiming, "Three years ago, a friend said to me, 'You can change the world.