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Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.

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
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Christianity Looks Myth
I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!
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Drunk Moisture Water Way
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
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
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.
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Healing Lying People
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
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
Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’
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Backstage Saved Stop
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
Anyone who doesn’t belive in Faeries, isn’t worth knowing.
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Believe Knowing
I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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Coming Girl Out Winter
If you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
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Children Night Thinking
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
I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Everything Found Secret

Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.

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