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" 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

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Grace Potter

Home

People

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" Dr. Dog is good summer music. "

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Dog

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" 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. "

" Music needs to move forward. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Fool

" 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. "

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

Grace Potter

Going

Turn

" 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. "

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

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

" I love Kind bars - I seriously always have them in my purse because they're so yummy. "

" 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. "

Grace Potter

Good

Craft

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "