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I hate long pants.
Music needs to move forward.
Dr. Dog is good summer music.
Donna Summer was such a genius.
I know what it takes to gain a fan.
I was a bit of a film nerd as a kid.
I love cooking... I'm quite domestic.
I'm a very loud and outspoken creature.
I was kind of a troublemaker, believe it or not.
Follow your path unapologetically. Be compassionate.
Ever since I was a little girl, I loved dressing up.
Love yourself. Then find something to love beyond yourself.
Food has always been a passion for me from a very young age.
For dramas, I love 'Downton Abbey.' I'm a sucker for the BBC.
I was a general contractor when I was paying for my first record.
I think that being precious and rock and roll should never go together.
The rainy season in Vermont is not long, but it definitely gets gloomy.
I usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that.
As a kid, I was not a tomboy; I was a total girl wearing tutus and red shoes.
I'm quite a nurturing person, and I'm more a mom than a crazy, partying rock star.
I love Kind bars - I seriously always have them in my purse because they're so yummy.
I always loved the piano because it's just a bunch of buttons. I like to push buttons.
I hear it all the time: 'What happened to the Grace Potter who didn't used to wear makeup?'
Tearing down an old house and building a new one is the most wasteful thing we do as humans.
There are daily stresses on the road, but when everyone gets fed, everyone gets happy. Simple.
Obvious is not my forte. I take a left turn right when everybody thinks I'm going to go straight.
I love a great pair of shoes, and as long as I feel like I can walk in them, I can dance in them.
When I'm onstage, I have to have primer. Actually, the more primer, the less makeup I have to put on.
Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity.
My dad turned me onto Led Zeppelin, the Stones, and the Who, but Madonna and pop music came from my mom.
Set lists are like movies. They need a great beginning, a dynamic shift in the middle, and bang at the end.
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.
Living on the road can make you feel quite displaced. Cooking a meal on the tour bus for everyone makes it home.
I always think it's a little bit of a challenge when people sort of associate female artists as their own genre.
As a ski bum and someone who came up in a ski bum family, I understand the essence of what Colorado is all about.
When I was a kid, I listened to the Doors and the Eagles and bands like the Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, and Blondie.
I was always sort of mystified and excited about the world of country music. Something about it struck me as enchanted.
When we were recording 'This is Somewhere,' we were still super green, super from Vermont, super not knowing what to do.
You shouldn't feel judged when you are dancing or singing at the top of your lungs or existing in a maximum-expression way.
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 loved the experience of going to the farmers' market, seeing where your food is grown, turning it into something delicious.
I was like a closet makeup fiend as a little girl because I knew that I would be guffawed at in school if I wore too much makeup.
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 grew up spending summer Saturdays at the local farmers' market, where my mom was a vendor. It fueled my passion for regional foods.
I've been singing since I could talk. I started playing the piano when I was about 5 or 6. I picked up the guitar on my 20th birthday.
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.
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.
For all the flack that we get for becoming successful, you get people who really respect how firmly planted our feet have been in Vermont.
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.