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I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.

Tori Amos

You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
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Daughter Mother Song
Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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Ice Cream Insanity Manson
I’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.
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Emotional Moving Player
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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Art Books Hearing Things
Nothing’s gonna stop me from floating
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Floating Nothing Stop
These precious things, let them bleed.
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Philosophy Precious Things
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
The last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
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Girl Survivor Want
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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Choices Growing Keys Up
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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Able Men Women Younger
At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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Cook Macrobiotic Mother
Don’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.
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Foolish Giving Minded Tonight
The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, ‘Sometimes I just breathe you in.’
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Important Music Sometimes
I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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Aboriginal Art Country Native People
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working

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