Quotes from Grace Potter

Living on the road can make you feel quite displaced. Cooking a meal on the tour bus for everyone makes it home.

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.

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'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'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.

Food has always been a passion for me from a very young age.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I worked extremely hard at my craft and at being a good songwriter, being a good guitar player, being a good organist, because I didn't think people would take me seriously.

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.

Music needs to move forward.

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.

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

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 a bit of a film nerd as a kid.

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.

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

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

I love making savory stratas for Christmas morning. I get excited about it. It's a polenta strata with homemade bread, with a billion eggs and Parmesan cheese. I'll drizzle truffle oil over the whole thing, which will just destroy people. It's amazing.