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If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.

Tori Amos

I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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Beautiful Boys Christian
So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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Come Jesus Make Music
Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
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Able Healing Sitting
Look, I’m standing naked before you; Don’t you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can’t claim innocence.
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Looks Naked Sex
My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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Favorite Loud Turns
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
You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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Justify Pissed Off
Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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Inspirational Seats Sky
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 a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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Dirty Hands Worker
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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Ability Church Father
When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
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Conversation Interviews Sometimes
If you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
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Children Night Thinking
I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Change Children Thinking
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
Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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Dark Knows Moon

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