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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.

Tori Amos

I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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Guitar Piano Trying
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
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
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
There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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Different Thinking Two
I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Change Children Thinking
I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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Grown Women Scar
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
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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Explore Names Touching
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 gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
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Happen Music Love Trying Works
got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
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Boys Harm Self Suicide
I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
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Monsters Soul Thinking
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells
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
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True

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