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There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music… because I don’t trust humanity that much, and I don’t know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.

Tori Amos

You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Justify Off Okay Pissed
If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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Age Crystals Hippie
When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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Ask Life People Pushing
I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.
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Mean Something Soul Thinking
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 became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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Choices Different Growth
Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said ‘no.’ I mean, you just don’t want to marry someone you’ve wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!
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Fart Mean Thirteen Want
I can’t believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that’s what it takes to sail you home.
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Believe Flying Home
The word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
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Mean People Thinking
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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Changing Your Life Littles
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
Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.
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Coffee Discipline Zombie
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn’t get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.
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Guy Jesus Years

There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music… because I don’t trust humanity that much, and I don’t know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.

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There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music… because I don’t trust humanity that much, and I don’t know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.

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