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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.

Tori Amos

I want to be an integrated woman.
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Integrated Want Woman
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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Around Business Made Realizing
We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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Clarity Country Grounded People
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
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
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
I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you’re not hiding anymore. It’s really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.
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Giving Pioneers Taught
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
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
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
To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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Being Glamour Sparkly
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
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
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Father Kings Rights
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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Changing Your Life Littles
For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.
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Emotional Song Together

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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