My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
TORI AMOSThere 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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You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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I’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s.
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I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That’s when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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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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I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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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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