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For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.

Tori Amos

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
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
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
Nothing’s gonna stop me from floating
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Floating Nothing Stop
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
I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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Great Law Mother Relationship
I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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Dirty Hands Worker
I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
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Believe Dream Nightmare
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
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
got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
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Boys Harm Self Suicide
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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Ice Cream Insanity Manson
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
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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Daughter Mother Song
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True

For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.

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For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.

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