My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
TORI AMOSThe music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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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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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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Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
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Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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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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So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
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I’m very at home working with mythology.
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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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I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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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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I like involved projects.
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If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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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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