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You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.

Tori Amos

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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Coming Girl Out Winter
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
I’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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Dirty Esteem Low Self Sheets
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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Inspirational Seats Sky
The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.
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Art Believe Confused Source
You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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People Too Much Trying
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
To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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Being Glamour Sparkly
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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Believe Dream Nightmare
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
Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
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Coming Euphoria Forty
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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Changing Your Life Littles
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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might Song Sound
There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music… because I don’t trust humanity that much, and I don’t know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
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Humanity Song Trust
I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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Great Law Mother Relationship

You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.

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