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I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

Tori Amos

Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
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
There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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Hard Matter Strange
People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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Fascinating Mystery People
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
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Jesus Needs Recovery
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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Explore Names Touching
I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Change Children Thinking
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
I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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Careers Country People
You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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People Too Much Trying
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
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
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
Some people say, I’d give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn’t. I didn’t enjoy being 30.
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Enjoy Giving People

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

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