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I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.

Tori Amos

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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Cook Macrobiotic Mother
I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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Beautiful Boys Christian
There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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Able Men Women Younger
If you can’t create physical life, you find a life force. If that’s in music, that’s in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
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Hands Moving Sorrow
You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Justify Off Okay Pissed
So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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Come Jesus Make Music
I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.
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Mean Something Soul Thinking
If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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Challenges Deals Want
There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
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Phenomenal Pressure Vintage
If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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Play Song Writing
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
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
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Father Kings Rights
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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Magic Music Naps
I think that other people covering my work is really exciting… Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.
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Art People Thinking
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

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