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Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.

Tori Amos

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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Daughter Mother Song
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
I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Everything Found Secret
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
When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
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Conversation Interviews Sometimes
Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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Crazy Friendship Maybe Understood
Anyone who doesn’t belive in Faeries, isn’t worth knowing.
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Believe Knowing
Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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Ice Cream Insanity Manson
Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said ‘no.’ I mean, you just don’t want to marry someone you’ve wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!
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Fart Mean Thirteen Want
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Justify Off Okay Pissed
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
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
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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Changing Your Life Littles
People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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Fascinating Mystery People
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories

Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.

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Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.

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