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I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.

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
There’s a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
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Jazz Complicated Looks World
Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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Ice Cream Insanity Manson
I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
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Long Thinking Together
I don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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Call Shrink Want
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
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
I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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Coming Girl Out Winter
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’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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Careers Country People
I like involved projects.
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Country Involved People Projects
I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
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Happen Music Love Trying Works
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
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
You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.
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Healing Lying People
I think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
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Country Dream People Thinking

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.

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