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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

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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Changing Your Life Littles
I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Everything Found Secret
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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Justify Pissed Off
I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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Allow Challenges Trip
If you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
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Children Night Thinking
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
The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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Magic Music Naps
If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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Challenges Deals Want
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
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
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Country People Sometimes Want
My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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Favorite Loud Turns
At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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Cook Macrobiotic Mother
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
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 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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