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" I like involved projects. "
Tori Amos
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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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" What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. "
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" Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs. "
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" I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer. "
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" A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now. "
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" I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s. "
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" I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely. "
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" Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all. "
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" I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical. "
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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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" There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often. "
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" Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again. "
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" Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be. "
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" Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it. "
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People
Beautiful
Places
" I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive. "
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" When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs. "
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" My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn. "
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" I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil. "
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Your
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" This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me. "
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Music
Me
" Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred. "
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" My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me. "
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" I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts. "
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" There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in. "
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" Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little. "
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