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Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.

Tori Amos

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 older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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Able Men Women Younger
For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.
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Emotional Song Together
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
Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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Antlers People Sheep
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
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
Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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Crossword Religion Religious
and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
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Make Tree Way
I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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Daughter Nursing Whale
These precious things, let them bleed.
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Philosophy Precious Things
I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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Bleeding Knees Trying
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Justify Off Okay Pissed
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells

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