When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
TORI AMOSIf you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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The word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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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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There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music… because I don’t trust humanity that much, and I don’t know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
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I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
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Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
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In real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango
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Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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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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Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
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The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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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 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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Nothing’s gonna stop me from floating
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I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
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Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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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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After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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