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These precious things, let them bleed.

Tori Amos

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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Important Music Sometimes
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
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Believe Dream Nightmare
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
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
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
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
So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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Come Jesus Make Music
You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Justify Off Okay Pissed
I want to be an integrated woman.
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Integrated Want Woman
We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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Clarity Country Grounded People
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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Coffee Discipline Zombie
Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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Art Chocolate Thinking
Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Jesus Needs Recovery
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
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True

These precious things, let them bleed.

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