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If 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.

Tori Amos

Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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Crazy Friendship Maybe Understood
If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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Brain Helping Lame
I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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Careers Country People
I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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Honest Myself Weird
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said ‘no.’ I mean, you just don’t want to marry someone you’ve wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!
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Fart Mean Thirteen Want
I’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.
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Emotional Moving Player
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother
Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.
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Coffee Discipline Zombie
Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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Precious Time Wrong
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
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
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
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
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks

If 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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If 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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