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" When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down. "
Tori Amos
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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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" I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head. "
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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 have built my world through Native American mythology. "
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" Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little. "
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" I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes. "
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" 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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" So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown. "
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" My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play. "
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" For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the back-story. "
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" I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano. "
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" There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business. "
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" Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light. "
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" I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less. "
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" I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty. "
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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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" I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen. "
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" A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh. "
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" The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for. "
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" I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do. "
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" I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. "
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" I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life. "
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" I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore. "
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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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" There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s. "
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" 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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" There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't. "
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