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There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.

Tori Amos

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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Happen Music Love Trying Works
You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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Justify Pissed Off
I’m not like a poker player. I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
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Cards Eye Player Table
I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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Aboriginal Art Country Native People
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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Feelings Last Way
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 don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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Honest Myself Weird
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
Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
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Able Healing Sitting
I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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Grown Women Scar
These precious things, let them bleed.
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Philosophy Precious Things
For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.
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Emotional Song Together
Nothing’s gonna stop me from floating
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Floating Nothing Stop
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
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Jobs Perfect Work
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

There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.

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There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.

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