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

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" 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. "

" You have to be a part of the conversation if you want to change the conversation. "

" I was a bit of a film nerd as a kid. "

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

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

" There are daily stresses on the road, but when everyone gets fed, everyone gets happy. Simple. "

" I hate long pants. "

" 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. "

" When I'm onstage, I have to have primer. Actually, the more primer, the less makeup I have to put on. "

" Follow your path unapologetically. Be compassionate. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity. "

" 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. "

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

" When I grew up and went to school, all the cool kids were in Carhartts and Mudd boots, and they were listening to the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers and driving Volkswagens. "

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

" I dance all the time. I'm almost constantly moving. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "