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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

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
I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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Grown Women Scar
got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
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Boys Harm Self Suicide
Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
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Able Healing Sitting
As the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
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Choices Night Sun
Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
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Arizona Honesty Song
To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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Being Glamour Sparkly
You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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Loses Mind Path
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
I’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
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Able People Tomatoes
I’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s.
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Feelings Sexy Wake Up
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
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
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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Explore Names Touching
Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Jesus Needs Recovery
The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
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Church Daughter People Play Separation

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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