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

Tori Amos

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
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
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 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 think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
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
Don’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.
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Foolish Giving Minded Tonight
My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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Favorite Loud Turns
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
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
Anyone who doesn’t belive in Faeries, isn’t worth knowing.
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Believe Knowing
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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Theme Thinking Variation
There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
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Listening Routine Way
A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
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Music Play Song
Pretty is never beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Pretty
got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
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Boys Harm Self Suicide
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
I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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Christ Really Christian Love
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
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
There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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Different Thinking Two
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
In real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango
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Play Real Sex
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
I’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.
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Emotional Moving Player
Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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Follow Heart Room
You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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Justify Pissed Off

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