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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.

Tori Amos

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
I’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
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Industry Men Music Powerful
Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
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Energy Focus Results
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
Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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Mistress Trying Wife
Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Jesus Needs Recovery
If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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Age Crystals Hippie
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
A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
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Music Play Song
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
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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Emotional Song Together
You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.
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Healing Lying People
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
Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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Antlers People Sheep
The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
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Church Daughter People Play Separation
You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Justify Off Okay Pissed

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