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" A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh. "
Tori Amos
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" My childhood was extreme. "
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" I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter. "
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" I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other. "
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" I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked. "
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" An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time. "
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" I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful. "
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" When one doesn't want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren't competing against each other. I think when you are in the same field, it's difficult to leave it outside and not compete. Then when the doors are closed; that pervades everything. "
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" I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive. "
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" I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men. "
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" Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people. "
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" I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving. "
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" If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone. "
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" Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what's difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That's very tricky. "
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" I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger. "
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" You don't leave people who can't defend themselves. "
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" I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11. "
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" The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power. "
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" Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes. "
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" People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career. "
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" I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something. "
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" A lot of songs are derivative of each other. "
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" It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes. "
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" What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. "
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" Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually. "
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" A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration. "
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" Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It's about discipline. You have to push yourself. "
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" I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store. "
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" When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.' "
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