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

Tori Amos

Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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Mistress Trying Wife
There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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Able Men Women Younger
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 don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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Caterers Cooks Husband
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
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
Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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Antlers People Sheep
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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Emotional Song Together
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
Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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Art Chocolate Thinking
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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Theme Thinking Variation
I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!
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Drunk Moisture Water Way
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
You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Justify Off Okay Pissed
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks

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