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" 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. "

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Small

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Grace Potter

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Life

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Craft

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

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

" I love making savory stratas for Christmas morning. I get excited about it. It's a polenta strata with homemade bread, with a billion eggs and Parmesan cheese. I'll drizzle truffle oil over the whole thing, which will just destroy people. It's amazing. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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Yourself

" I'm a very loud and outspoken creature. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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Farmers

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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