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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

If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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Allow Challenges Trip
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’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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Aboriginal Art Country Native People
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
The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.
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Away Going Ice Cream Men
I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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Christ Really Christian Love
If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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Age Crystals Hippie
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
I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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Dirty Hands Worker
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’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
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 think that other people covering my work is really exciting… Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.
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Art People Thinking
I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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Grown Women Scar
I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn’t get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.
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Guy Jesus Years
I’m not like a poker player. I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
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Cards Eye Player Table
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
It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.
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Dragon Go Journey Letting
These precious things, let them bleed.
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Philosophy Precious Things
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
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Boys Harm Self Suicide
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
Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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Precious Time Wrong
Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.
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Coffee Discipline Zombie
I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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Husband Muse Well

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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