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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 think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
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Country Dream People Thinking
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
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
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 was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
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Daughter Mother Song
I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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Honest Myself Weird
These precious things, let them bleed.
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Philosophy Precious Things
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
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
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
I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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Allow Challenges Trip
If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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Brain Helping Lame
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
My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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Favorite Loud Turns
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 wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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Beautiful Boys Christian

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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