''I like to ask questions,'' said Mia Doi Todd, a quietly thoughtful songwriter who released her first major-label album last year. ''I don't neccessarily like to answer them for people, but I definitely like to make them turn around and question what they have taken for granted.'' Ms. Todd has lately been performing Joni Mitchell's antiwar song ''The Fiddle And The Drum'' and a new one of her own, ''The Way,'' which mingles existential ruminations and lines like ''We're junking bonds, we're dropping bombs we've made by guzzling gasoline.'' She has been playing ''The Way'' whenever she gets a chance to appear on radio broadcasts, generally noncommercial ones. ''I wish it were on a single, right now,'' she said.

New York Times, MUSIC; New Songs, Old Message: 'No War'