I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you’re not hiding anymore. It’s really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.
TORI AMOSThe fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
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I’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s.
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I’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.
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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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I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
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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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I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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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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Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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