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Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.

Tori Amos

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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Around Business Made Realizing
An interview will seem very sane to me, and I’ll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
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Half Laughing Mouths
I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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Grown Women Scar
If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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Play Song Writing
The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.
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Away Going Ice Cream Men
The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, ‘Sometimes I just breathe you in.’
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Important Music Sometimes
Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
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Believe Order Powerful
Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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Inspirational Seats Sky
So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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Come Jesus Make Music
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
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
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
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
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
If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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Brain Helping Lame
The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.
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Choices Growing Keys Up

Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.

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