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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

Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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Crossword Religion Religious
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks
There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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Hard Matter Strange
I’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s.
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Feelings Sexy Wake Up
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 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
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 became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
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
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
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
Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Art Media Pain
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
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
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller

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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