Grace Potter

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. ”

So much of myself is consumed with earning my way, doing it myself, and never feeling like things are being handed to you. Growing up that way was humbling. ”

I always think it's a little bit of a challenge when people sort of associate female artists as their own genre. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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 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. ”