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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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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
Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
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might Song Sound
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
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
So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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Come Jesus Make Music
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
You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.
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Healing Lying People
Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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Follow Heart Room
Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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Dark Knows Moon
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
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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Changing Your Life Littles
You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Justify Off Okay Pissed
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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Music Play Song
Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said ‘no.’ I mean, you just don’t want to marry someone you’ve wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!
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Fart Mean Thirteen Want
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

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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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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