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" I grew up spending summer Saturdays at the local farmers' market, where my mom was a vendor. It fueled my passion for regional foods. "
Grace Potter
Summer
Farmers
Up
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" Food has always been a passion for me from a very young age. "
Grace Potter
Young
Always
Food
" 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. "
Grace Potter
Business
Team
Step
" 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. "
Grace Potter
Kid
Stories
Reading
" 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. "
Grace Potter
Think
Bad
Country
" I dance all the time. I'm almost constantly moving. "
Grace Potter
Dance
Constantly
Time
" 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. "
Grace Potter
Always
Alone
People
" 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. "
Grace Potter
Weird
Size
Like
" I love a great pair of shoes, and as long as I feel like I can walk in them, I can dance in them. "
Grace Potter
Walk
Dance
Great
" I've gone from wearing jeans and cowboy boots to wearing miniskirts and gold tassels and high heels. I'm sure I'm not going to dress that way forever. It's going to change again and again. "
Grace Potter
High Heels
Boots
Gold
" I hate long pants. "
Grace Potter
Long
Hate
Pants
" 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. "
Grace Potter
People
Love
Live
" 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. "
Grace Potter
Team
Flying
Direction
" 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. "
Grace Potter
School
Like
Girl
" I'm a very loud and outspoken creature. "
Grace Potter
Loud
Outspoken
Very
" I'm not capable of wielding the guitar like Jimmy Page, one of my all-time favorite guitarists. My skill set is more based on the grinding, sort of human heartbeat - almost playing the guitar more like a drum. "
Grace Potter
Human
Guitar
Heartbeat
" 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.' "
Grace Potter
Like
Me
Fool
" 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. "
Grace Potter
Country
Dress
Style
" I always think it's a little bit of a challenge when people sort of associate female artists as their own genre. "
Grace Potter
Challenge
Always
Own
" 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. "
Grace Potter
People
Faith
Respect
" 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. "
Grace Potter
Spooky
Rock
Parents
" 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. "
Grace Potter
See
Now
Know
" Dr. Dog is good summer music. "
Grace Potter
Good
Dr
Dog
" I love Kind bars - I seriously always have them in my purse because they're so yummy. "
Grace Potter
Love
Seriously
Purse
" 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. "
Grace Potter
Own
Band
Care
" 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. "
Grace Potter
Beautiful
Life
Me
" I was a general contractor when I was paying for my first record. "
Grace Potter
First
Record
Contractor
" 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. "
Grace Potter
Childhood
Me
You
" I love cooking... I'm quite domestic. "
Grace Potter
Cooking
Quite
Love
" The rainy season in Vermont is not long, but it definitely gets gloomy. "
Grace Potter
Rainy
Gloomy
Long
" My dad turned me onto Led Zeppelin, the Stones, and the Who, but Madonna and pop music came from my mom. "
Grace Potter
Pop Music
Music
Mom