I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
TORI AMOSSo close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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Over the last few hours I’ve allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won’t be afraid of that feeling anymore.
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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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I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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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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I like involved projects.
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Some people say, I’d give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn’t. I didn’t enjoy being 30.
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You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn’t get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.
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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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The last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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