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

Tori Amos

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
The word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
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Mean People Thinking
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
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
I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
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Happen Music Love Trying Works
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
We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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Clarity Country Grounded People
To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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Being Glamour Sparkly
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
I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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Cook Macrobiotic Mother
I’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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Feelings Sexy Wake Up
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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Bleeding Knees Trying
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
There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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Different Thinking Two
I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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Christ Really Christian Love

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

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