You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
TORI AMOSI’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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I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
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I’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
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So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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Over the last few hours I’ve allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won’t be afraid of that feeling anymore.
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The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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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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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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Pretty is never beautiful.
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I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.
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If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
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I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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