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Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.

Tori Amos

I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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Beautiful Boys Christian
I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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Daughter Nursing Whale
You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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People Too Much Trying
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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Antlers People Sheep
I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
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Believe Dream Nightmare
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks
I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells
got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
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Boys Harm Self Suicide
You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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Justify Pissed Off
Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
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Coming Euphoria Forty
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
It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.
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Dragon Go Journey Letting
You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Justify Off Okay Pissed

Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.

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