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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think that being precious and rock and roll should never go together. "

" 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 hate long pants. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For dramas, I love 'Downton Abbey.' I'm a sucker for the BBC. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I know what it takes to gain a fan. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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