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“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.”
“As a kid, I was not a tomboy; I was a total girl wearing tutus and red shoes.”
“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.”
“My dad turned me onto Led Zeppelin, the Stones, and the Who, but Madonna and pop music came from my mom.”
“Any time you write a song, you kind of know what you want from it. You know what you're getting from it.”
“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.”
“Set lists are like movies. They need a great beginning, a dynamic shift in the middle, and bang at the end.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 don't have any kids of my own, but I love my band, and I love the people I'm around and taking care of them.”
“I was kind of a troublemaker, believe it or not.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I was, like, a kooky kid, so people thought I was loud, but I really wasn't. I was kind of loud in outbursts. I was like a silent volcano. When I did have something to share, it was very over-the-top. But I've learned to balance that.”
“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.”
“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.”