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

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

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" I'm from Vermont, where to be stylish and cool is to have a dirty pair of hiking boots and know how to change a tire, hang drywall, and bale hay. Those people are my home, and every time I come home, it reminds me that there's something to be said for being in the spotlight, but it can never be a whole part of me. "

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

" 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. "

" I've gone from wearing jeans and cowboy boots to wearing miniskirts and gold tassels and high heels. I'm sure I'm not going to dress that way forever. It's going to change again and again. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

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