If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
TORI AMOSIf you can’t create physical life, you find a life force. If that’s in music, that’s in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
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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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These precious things, let them bleed.
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I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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I’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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As the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
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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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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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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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Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.
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After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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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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