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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

To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
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
I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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Daughter Nursing Whale
Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
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Believe Order Powerful
You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Justify Off Okay Pissed
Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
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Arizona Honesty Song
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
An interview will seem very sane to me, and I’ll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
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Half Laughing Mouths
I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Everything Found Secret
I can’t believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that’s what it takes to sail you home.
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Believe Flying Home
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
I like involved projects.
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Country Involved People Projects
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’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
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Able People Tomatoes
I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Change Children Thinking
Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Jesus Needs Recovery

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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