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.

Voting is something that we all have a right to. It's not something that we have to do... it's absolutely an honor and a great opportunity to be heard.

Love yourself. Then find something to love beyond yourself.

Tearing down an old house and building a new one is the most wasteful thing we do as humans.

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!

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

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

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.

Mick Jagger knows how to run a show. It's all about pacing. It's not a sprint, it's a marathon. His output is amazing, but his movements are subtle. As I get older, I'll have to adhere to these rules.

In my mind, an album shouldn't be self-titled unless it feels that way.

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

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.

Music needs to move forward.

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.

Robert Plant, Kenny Chesney, Mavis Staples, Taj Mahal, this incredible array of folks, all taught me a way to carry yourself with dignity.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 think I knew when I was about 2 and a half that I wanted to be a singer.

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.

The limitations and parameters of a band is something I've always enjoyed: so many creative people coming together and raising the music to places we'd never get on our own.

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.

Music really does make you feel better.

When I was a kid, I listened to the Doors and the Eagles and bands like the Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, and Blondie.

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.

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

As a ski bum and someone who came up in a ski bum family, I understand the essence of what Colorado is all about.

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

Donna Summer was such a genius.

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'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.

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.

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.

Dr. Dog is good summer music.

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 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 really love what Chuck Berry did with Christmas music, and also the Rat Pack Christmas stuff, which I listened to all through my childhood.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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