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

Tori Amos

Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
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Energy Focus Results
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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People Too Much Trying
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
These precious things, let them bleed.
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Philosophy Precious Things
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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Listening Routine Way
There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
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Phenomenal Pressure Vintage
My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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Ability Church Father
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
The last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
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Girl Survivor Want
The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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Magic Music Naps
Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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Antlers People Sheep
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells
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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Humanity Song Trust
I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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Husband Muse Well
Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
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Arizona Honesty Song

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