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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

Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’
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Backstage Saved Stop
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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Justify Pissed Off
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
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
I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?
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Crew Reading Thinking
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
There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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Able Men Women Younger
I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
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Daughter Mother Song
My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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Favorite Loud Turns
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
Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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Dark Knows Moon
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
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Beer Cob Corn Father
Pretty is never beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Pretty
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’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
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Industry Men Music Powerful

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