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Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.

Tori Amos

The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.
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Art Believe Confused Source
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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Beer Cob Corn Father
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
These precious things, let them bleed.
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Philosophy Precious Things
It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.
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Dragon Go Journey Letting
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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Hard Matter Strange
After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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Around Business Made Realizing
I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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Careers Country People
I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Everything Found Secret
I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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Beautiful Boys Christian
I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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Husband Muse Well
There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said ‘Tori, you’ve made it. You’re nothing until you’ve been bootlegged.’
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Home Plant Video
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
When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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Ask Life People Pushing
Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
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Arizona Honesty Song

Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.

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