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" 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. "

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

Grace Potter

Loved

Experience

Farmers

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Being on a major label is like living at your friend's parent's mansion: It's a lot nicer than any apartment we could afford, and the fridge is always full of food. "

" 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 you give your life over to your touring schedule, it's so grueling, you have to have moments where you have your own comfort places. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" I admire pop stars, and there's parts of that world I'm glad I don't have to go through. It takes a lot of work to do the things they do. "

" I'm really into poetry. "

Grace Potter

Really

Poetry

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The longevity of a band is really contingent on loving the people that you're making music with and being able to get along in the long run. It's just like being married, except you're married to more than one person! "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

Grace Potter

Loved

Piano

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

" 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

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

" There are a lot of bands coming up now that are literally thrusting their soul, their passion into something that fans can pay for a ticket to go see, and they know it's going to be awe-inspiring. "