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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

Tori Amos

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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Beer Cob Corn Father
I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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Caterers Cooks Husband
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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Explore Names Touching
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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Half Laughing Mouths
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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Come Jesus Make Music
When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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Ask Life People Pushing
and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
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Make Tree Way
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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Jazz Complicated Looks World
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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Feelings Sexy Wake Up
The word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
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Mean People Thinking
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
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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Listening Routine Way
In real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango
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Play Real Sex
You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Justify Off Okay Pissed

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