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I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.

Tori Amos

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
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
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
Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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Crazy Friendship Maybe Understood
Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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Ice Cream Insanity Manson
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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Ability Church Father
The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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Magic Music Naps
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
I like involved projects.
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Country Involved People Projects
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
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
If you can’t create physical life, you find a life force. If that’s in music, that’s in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
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Hands Moving Sorrow
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
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
I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
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Monsters Soul Thinking

I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.

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I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.

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