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" With my childhood and growing up in a very free place where my parents were artists and always encouraging me to explore, you wouldn't think I was locked up in my own mind, but I was. "

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

" Donna Summer was such a genius. "

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" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Music really does make you feel better. "

" A lot of the themes that I write about are an affirmation of our existence on earth and making people feel like they are not alone, and making them feel like it is OK to be a little bit insane. That has always been sort of my credo in life. "

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

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

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

" It's funny: when I was a kid, my mom would reorganize the record collection all the time. She'd have classical, she'd have Celtic, she'd have rock and roll, and then she'd have female singers. And I don't like it that female singers are their own genre. "

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

" I'm legally blind in one eye, and one eye is a totally different size than the other, and I have, like, a weird crossed-eye thing. "

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" My parents raised me on Spooky Tooth and The Band, Derek and the Dominoes, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, all that stuff. Rock n' roll was just in my subconscious. "

" 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. "

" I was always sort of mystified and excited about the world of country music. Something about it struck me as enchanted. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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