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I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

Tori Amos

Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.
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Coffee Discipline Zombie
The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, ‘Sometimes I just breathe you in.’
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Important Music Sometimes
It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.
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Dragon Go Journey Letting
I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Everything Found Secret
Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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Crazy Friendship Maybe Understood
I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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Grown Women Scar
We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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Clarity Country Grounded People
My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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Favorite Loud Turns
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
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
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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Feelings Last Way
I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
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Believe Dream Nightmare
To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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Being Glamour Sparkly
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Christianity Looks Myth
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
Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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Dark Knows Moon

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