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" I was always sort of mystified and excited about the world of country music. Something about it struck me as enchanted. "

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" 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. "

" 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 was, like, a kooky kid, so people thought I was loud, but I really wasn't. I was kind of loud in outbursts. I was like a silent volcano. When I did have something to share, it was very over-the-top. But I've learned to balance that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I really love what Chuck Berry did with Christmas music, and also the Rat Pack Christmas stuff, which I listened to all through my childhood. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Dr. Dog is good summer music. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Love yourself. Then find something to love beyond yourself. "

" I think that identity and sort of the brand - I hate that word - the brand of the musician should be malleable. It should change, and it should grow. "

" 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. "

" I'm really into poetry. "

" 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. "

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

" I hate long pants. "

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

" Follow your path unapologetically. Be compassionate. "