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If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.

Tori Amos

Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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Antlers People Sheep
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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Happen Music Love Trying Works
After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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Around Business Made Realizing
I like involved projects.
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Country Involved People Projects
I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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Beautiful Boys Christian
If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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Play Song Writing
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
These precious things, let them bleed.
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Philosophy Precious Things
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother
I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn’t get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.
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Guy Jesus Years
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
There’s a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
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Jazz Complicated Looks World
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
The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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Magic Music Naps
Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
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Believe Order Powerful
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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Changing Your Life Littles

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