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I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.

Tori Amos

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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Coffee Discipline Zombie
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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Guy Jesus Years
People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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Fascinating Mystery People
These precious things, let them bleed.
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Philosophy Precious Things
I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Change Children Thinking
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
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
I can’t believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that’s what it takes to sail you home.
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Believe Flying Home
I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you’re not hiding anymore. It’s really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.
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Giving Pioneers Taught
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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Mean People Thinking
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
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
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
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Coming Euphoria Forty
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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Play Real Sex
Pretty is never beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Pretty

I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.

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