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I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn’t get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.

Tori Amos

I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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Aboriginal Art Country Native People
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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Beautiful Boys Christian
Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
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Jobs Perfect Work
As the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
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Choices Night Sun
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
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
There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
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Phenomenal Pressure Vintage
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
I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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Husband Muse Well
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
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
The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.
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Choices Growing Keys Up
I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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Daughter Nursing Whale
If you can’t create physical life, you find a life force. If that’s in music, that’s in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
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Hands Moving Sorrow

I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn’t get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.

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I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn’t get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.

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