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.
TORI AMOSI think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
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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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If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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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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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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Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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The word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
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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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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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I’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
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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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The last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
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Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.
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