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If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.

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
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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Feelings Sexy Wake Up
Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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Follow Heart Room
Some people say, I’d give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn’t. I didn’t enjoy being 30.
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Enjoy Giving People
My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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Favorite Loud Turns
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
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
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
I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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Husband Muse Well
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
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother
It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.
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Dragon Go Journey Letting
I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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Guitar Piano Trying
The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
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Church Daughter People Play Separation
Don’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.
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Foolish Giving Minded Tonight

If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.

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