Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
TORI AMOSThe violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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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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Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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I like involved projects.
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Over the last few hours I’ve allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won’t be afraid of that feeling anymore.
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A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
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There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.
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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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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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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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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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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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After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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