You walked out of the initial sessions for The Lion The Beast The Beat. What was that all about?

Grace Potter: I was having a mid–life crisis! It had to do with the music, more than anything. What was happening was, we were churning out song after song and the process was not rewarding to me. The songs sounded great, and we were poppin’ ‘em out like bunnies, but it didn’t feel “sticky” – there didn’t feel like there was anything was sticking together. It was just a bunch of songs, and it sounded like we were really searching for a hit. And I was losing faith in myself, because I don’t like writing songs to sound like hits. That’s not how I work. That’s not how my brain works; I don’t want to write a hit. I just want every song I write to BE a hit. (laughing) You can’t aim for it, though. It’s a delicate balance and like I said, you either know how to do it or you don’t.

I didn’t think we were reaping the benefits of what the process of making a record should be about, which is continuity and really falling in love with a body of work all at once. So I scrapped pretty much everything we had done — we’d been recording for two months — and I threw it in the trash and said “Let’s start over.” And I just jumped in the car and drove. I drove for a week; I just pointed the car north and got out of the city. I also went to Vermont, and down to the Caribbean, I just needed to be a vagabond. And that’s where the album really came from.

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