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With my childhood and growing up in a very free place where my parents were artists and always encouraging me to explore, you wouldn't think I was locked up in my own mind, but I was.

Dr. Dog is good summer music.

You have to be a part of the conversation if you want to change the conversation.

Music needs to move forward.

I admire pop stars, and there's parts of that world I'm glad I don't have to go through. It takes a lot of work to do the things they do.

When I was a kid, I listened to the Doors and the Eagles and bands like the Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, and Blondie.

When we were recording 'This is Somewhere,' we were still super green, super from Vermont, super not knowing what to do.

I'm really into poetry.

I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also the films and mythology and stories.

Every single song I write has to feel like it has a beginning, middle, and end, like a movie or a short story.

Any time you write a song, you kind of know what you want from it. You know what you're getting from it.

What I was drawn to the most about the Flying V was the weight distribution with the way I move on stage. The V just swings perfectly. It's a great way to stay balanced, because I like to dance, and I'm a bit of a flail-er. The guitar centers me, and for me, it's a really good balance.

The longevity of a band is really contingent on loving the people that you're making music with and being able to get along in the long run. It's just like being married, except you're married to more than one person!

There's definitely no subtlety in what I do. When you want to get your face melted, you come to a Grace Potter and the Nocturnals concert.

I've been singing since I could talk. I started playing the piano when I was about 5 or 6. I picked up the guitar on my 20th birthday.

I see musicians like Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris as more than just musical icons: they are planets, with a gravitational pull - from how they flip their hair just-so when they bow, right down to their hearty backstage banter. It takes decades to learn the innuendos of being gracious and genuine all at once.

I always loved the piano because it's just a bunch of buttons. I like to push buttons.

We are definitely a team, from each band member to our management/booking agent. I like to be as involved as possible with business decisions, but at a certain point, it's important to me to step aside and let the professionals do their thing.

Set lists are like movies. They need a great beginning, a dynamic shift in the middle, and bang at the end.

Spirituality is complicated. I do not belong to any particular religious group, but I have profound respect for people who devote their lives to faith.

Follow your path unapologetically. Be compassionate.

Love yourself. Then find something to love beyond yourself.

Think about what makes a band burn out. They get too successful too fast. And then they take it for granted. And they get entitled. And they get picky. We don't ever allow ourselves that possibility.

For all the flack that we get for becoming successful, you get people who really respect how firmly planted our feet have been in Vermont.

I hear it all the time: 'What happened to the Grace Potter who didn't used to wear makeup?'

The misconception about the record company is that they were the ones who got me wearing short skirts, or got me to do my hair blond, or got me to dance around onstage and start doing different things with my clothes. No, that was actually all me.

Ever since I was a little girl, I loved dressing up.

What I'm wearing changes everything about how the show goes. If I'm wearing blue jeans and flannel, it's going to be a country show, and I'm going to get my twang on. But if I'm wearing a flapper dress, fringe or sequins, I'm rocking out, Tina Turner style.

My mom was a piano teacher. It turned into something of a competition between me and her students... I liked the idea that I needed to be better than everybody else.

We are all just the tip of a pinprick of the millions of things that had to happen in order for us to be here.

Being on a major label is like living at your friend's parent's mansion: It's a lot nicer than any apartment we could afford, and the fridge is always full of food.

When people see a talented girl, it calls to mind the very rare breed of women who have managed to succeed. If I were a dude with the exact same voice, band and songs, I doubt they'd compare me to Sheryl Crow. But hey, I'm not complaining. Big fish, small pond.

I loved the experience of going to the farmers' market, seeing where your food is grown, turning it into something delicious.

Food has always been a passion for me from a very young age.

It's easy for me to write songs but hard for me to write an album; that's been my experience.

I always think it's a little bit of a challenge when people sort of associate female artists as their own genre.

It's funny: when I was a kid, my mom would reorganize the record collection all the time. She'd have classical, she'd have Celtic, she'd have rock and roll, and then she'd have female singers. And I don't like it that female singers are their own genre.

Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity.

Voting is something that we all have a right to. It's not something that we have to do... it's absolutely an honor and a great opportunity to be heard.

Honestly, I don't think I ever really was a sweet country girl. I think that was a misconception about me. I was always bad.

I love a great pair of shoes, and as long as I feel like I can walk in them, I can dance in them.

There's nothing less sexy than a girl falling over on stage. I have fallen once, but it had nothing to do with my shoes. I'm legally blind, so I fell over a monitor because the stage was black, and I had no depth perception. Mortifying.

There's something to be said for being sleepy-eyed. I love sleepy eyes - that sort of vulnerability of being slightly discombobulated because you don't know where you are. But I like that vulnerability. It's sexy to me.

Obvious is not my forte. I take a left turn right when everybody thinks I'm going to go straight.

I'm from Vermont, where to be stylish and cool is to have a dirty pair of hiking boots and know how to change a tire, hang drywall, and bale hay. Those people are my home, and every time I come home, it reminds me that there's something to be said for being in the spotlight, but it can never be a whole part of me.

So much of myself is consumed with earning my way, doing it myself, and never feeling like things are being handed to you. Growing up that way was humbling.

I know it's strange, but I've always had a better time with other people's wild ideas. Coming up with my own is a deeply emotional and challenging thing to do.

As a kid, I was not a tomboy; I was a total girl wearing tutus and red shoes.

It took a lot of years for me to get comfortable, strutting my stuff, dancing like a fool, having that sparkly dress on that says, 'Here I am.'

I worked extremely hard at my craft and at being a good songwriter, being a good guitar player, being a good organist, because I didn't think people would take me seriously.

I know what it takes to gain a fan.

I'm quite a nurturing person, and I'm more a mom than a crazy, partying rock star.

I don't have any kids of my own, but I love my band, and I love the people I'm around and taking care of them.

I love cooking... I'm quite domestic.

Living on the road can make you feel quite displaced. Cooking a meal on the tour bus for everyone makes it home.

I grew up spending summer Saturdays at the local farmers' market, where my mom was a vendor. It fueled my passion for regional foods.

There are daily stresses on the road, but when everyone gets fed, everyone gets happy. Simple.

I was a bit of a film nerd as a kid.

I'm a very loud and outspoken creature.

I usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that.

The rainy season in Vermont is not long, but it definitely gets gloomy.

A lot of the themes that I write about are an affirmation of our existence on earth and making people feel like they are not alone, and making them feel like it is OK to be a little bit insane. That has always been sort of my credo in life.

As long as you have balance, you can experience all of the things going on in the world and reach out and meet people and try new things, and you shouldn't be judged for it.

You shouldn't feel judged when you are dancing or singing at the top of your lungs or existing in a maximum-expression way.

There are a lot of bands coming up now that are literally thrusting their soul, their passion into something that fans can pay for a ticket to go see, and they know it's going to be awe-inspiring.

Music really does make you feel better.

I've seen Coldplay live a couple of times, and you feel like you just got rained over with glorious, glowing love. That's a good feeling to leave people with.

In my mind, an album shouldn't be self-titled unless it feels that way.

When I'm onstage, I have to have primer. Actually, the more primer, the less makeup I have to put on.

I'm legally blind in one eye, and one eye is a totally different size than the other, and I have, like, a weird crossed-eye thing.

When I grew up and went to school, all the cool kids were in Carhartts and Mudd boots, and they were listening to the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers and driving Volkswagens.

I was like a closet makeup fiend as a little girl because I knew that I would be guffawed at in school if I wore too much makeup.

I've gotta long list of things to do, bucket list things - play 'Saturday Night Live,' make a movie. I want a lot of things, but one of my deepest wishes would be to headline - and sell out - Red Rocks.

As a ski bum and someone who came up in a ski bum family, I understand the essence of what Colorado is all about.

I was a general contractor when I was paying for my first record.

Tearing down an old house and building a new one is the most wasteful thing we do as humans.

Robert Plant, Kenny Chesney, Mavis Staples, Taj Mahal, this incredible array of folks, all taught me a way to carry yourself with dignity.

Mick Jagger knows how to run a show. It's all about pacing. It's not a sprint, it's a marathon. His output is amazing, but his movements are subtle. As I get older, I'll have to adhere to these rules.

Donna Summer was such a genius.

The limitations and parameters of a band is something I've always enjoyed: so many creative people coming together and raising the music to places we'd never get on our own.

In a lot of ways, the Nocturnals are a safety net and a beautiful, beautiful blanket. All the life and music we've woven makes it so much more than a name on a marquee. But I realized the Nocturnals aren't me but a part of me... so it's natural to want to grow.

My dad turned me onto Led Zeppelin, the Stones, and the Who, but Madonna and pop music came from my mom.

I was kind of a troublemaker, believe it or not.

My parents raised me on Spooky Tooth and The Band, Derek and the Dominoes, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, all that stuff. Rock n' roll was just in my subconscious.

Trends suck you in, anywhere in the world, patterns you don't even see. It's so easy. Look at Wall Street - look at any sports team in the world - there are trends. Look at exercising. Nothing but patterns and trends, and that's what I started to see. Like a flock of birds all flying in one direction.

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