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You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.

Tori Amos

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
You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.
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Healing Lying People
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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Art Books Hearing Things
Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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Precious Time Wrong
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks
There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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Able Men Women Younger
You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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Loses Mind Path
My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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Favorite Loud Turns
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
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
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
There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music… because I don’t trust humanity that much, and I don’t know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
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Humanity Song Trust
Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
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Energy Focus Results
I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
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Believe Dream Nightmare
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
Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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Antlers People Sheep

You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.

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