I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
TORI AMOSOver the last few hours I’ve allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won’t be afraid of that feeling anymore.
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Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
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I think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
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Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
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I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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I like involved projects.
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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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There’s a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
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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 backstory.
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A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
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Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
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You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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