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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.

Tori Amos

I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
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Art Books Hearing Things
and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
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Make Tree Way
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Christianity Looks Myth
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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Bleeding Knees Trying
I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Change Children Thinking
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
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
I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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Daughter Nursing Whale
Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
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Energy Focus Results
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells
Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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Crossword Religion Religious
So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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Come Jesus Make Music
The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.
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Away Going Ice Cream Men
I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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Grown Women Scar
When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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Ask Life People Pushing
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

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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