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I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.

Tori Amos

I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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Caterers Cooks Husband
Pretty is never beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Pretty
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
If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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Challenges Deals Want
Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Art Media Pain
After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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Around Business Made Realizing
The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.
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Away Going Ice Cream Men
There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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Hard Matter Strange
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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Emotional Song Together
I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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Great Law Mother Relationship
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
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
Some people say, I’d give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn’t. I didn’t enjoy being 30.
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Enjoy Giving People
Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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Crazy Friendship Maybe Understood
Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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Antlers People Sheep
The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.
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Art Believe Confused Source

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.

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I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.

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