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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.

Tori Amos

Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells
If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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Brain Helping Lame
Don’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.
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Foolish Giving Minded Tonight
Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
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Country People Sometimes Want
Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Art Media Pain
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
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
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
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
I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Change Children Thinking
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Justify Off Okay Pissed
I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Everything Found Secret
There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
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Phenomenal Pressure Vintage
I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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Careers Country People

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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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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