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

Tori Amos

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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Cook Macrobiotic Mother
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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Crazy Friendship Maybe Understood
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Change Children Thinking
I’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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Dirty Esteem Low Self Sheets
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
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 don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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Honest Myself Weird
An interview will seem very sane to me, and I’ll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
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Half Laughing Mouths
As the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
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Choices Night Sun
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
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 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
I’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.
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Emotional Moving Player
If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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Play Song Writing

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