When people see a talented girl, it calls to mind the very rare breed of women who have managed to succeed. If I were a dude with the exact same voice, band and songs, I doubt they'd compare me to Sheryl Crow. But hey, I'm not complaining. Big fish, small pond.

Grace Potter

Women Men Age

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.

Grace Potter

Legal Weird Totally

Love yourself. Then find something to love beyond yourself.

Grace Potter

Love Yourself Yours

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.

Grace Potter

Respect Faith Art

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

Grace Potter

Wasteful Waste Use

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

Grace Potter

Family Who Up

There's something to be said for being sleepy-eyed. I love sleepy eyes - that sort of vulnerability of being slightly discombobulated because you don't know where you are. But I like that vulnerability. It's sexy to me.

Grace Potter

Love You Yes

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

Grace Potter

Vermont T Son

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.

Grace Potter

Great Voting Unity

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

Grace Potter

Yin Tractor T

When people see a talented girl, it calls to mind the very rare breed of women who have managed to succeed. If I were a dude with the exact same voice, band and songs, I doubt they'd compare me to Sheryl Crow. But hey, I'm not complaining. Big fish, small pond.

Grace Potter

Women Men Age

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

Grace Potter

Music World Ways

Follow your path unapologetically. Be compassionate.

Grace Potter

Your You UN

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

Grace Potter

Troublemaker Trouble T

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.

Grace Potter

Would Wishes Wish

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.

Grace Potter

Music Love Christmas

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.

Grace Potter

Us Tip Things

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.

Grace Potter

Teacher Pet Mom

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.

Grace Potter

Music Ways Way

I hate long pants.

Grace Potter

T Pants Pan

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

Grace Potter

T Nerd Kid

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

Grace Potter

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.

Grace Potter

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

Grace Potter

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.

Grace Potter

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.

Grace Potter

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.

Grace Potter

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

Grace Potter

I'm really into poetry.

Grace Potter

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.

Grace Potter

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

I know it's strange, but I've always had a better time with other people's wild ideas. Coming up with my own is a deeply emotional and challenging thing to do.

Grace Potter

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

Grace Potter

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.

Grace Potter

Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity.

Grace Potter

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

Grace Potter

What I'm wearing changes everything about how the show goes. If I'm wearing blue jeans and flannel, it's going to be a country show, and I'm going to get my twang on. But if I'm wearing a flapper dress, fringe or sequins, I'm rocking out, Tina Turner style.

Grace Potter

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.

Grace Potter

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

Grace Potter

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.

Grace Potter

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

Grace Potter

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

Grace Potter

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.

Grace Potter

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.

Grace Potter

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.

Grace Potter

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.

Grace Potter

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

Grace Potter

Ever since I was a little girl, I loved dressing up.

Grace Potter

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

Grace Potter

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.

Grace Potter

I grew up spending summer Saturdays at the local farmers' market, where my mom was a vendor. It fueled my passion for regional foods.

Grace Potter