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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.

Tori Amos

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 think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
I’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.
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Emotional Moving Player
There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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Different Thinking Two
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
Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
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Jobs Perfect Work
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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Explore Names Touching
I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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Beautiful Boys Christian
I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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Allow Challenges Trip
The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.
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Art Believe Confused Source
I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?
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Crew Reading Thinking
Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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Crossword Religion Religious
Over the last few hours I’ve allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won’t be afraid of that feeling anymore.
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Feelings Last Way
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells
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

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.

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