To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
TORI AMOSThe 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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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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If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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Over the last few hours I’ve allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won’t be afraid of that feeling anymore.
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Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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I’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
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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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Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.
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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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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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An interview will seem very sane to me, and I’ll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
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The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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