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I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

Tori Amos

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
Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
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might Song Sound
After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That’s when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
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Occur Piano Players Singer
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
I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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Allow Challenges Trip
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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Precious Time Wrong
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
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Beer Cob Corn Father
Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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Art Chocolate 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
Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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Dark Knows Moon
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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Explore Names Touching
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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Changing Your Life Littles
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

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