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Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’

Tori Amos

I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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Careers Country People
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
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Father Kings Rights
Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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Choices Different Growth
After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That’s when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
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Occur Piano Players Singer
There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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Able Men Women Younger
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
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
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
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
Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’
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Backstage Saved Stop
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks
To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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Being Glamour Sparkly
I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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Dirty Hands Worker
I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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Husband Muse Well
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

Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’

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