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The 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.

Tori Amos

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
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
Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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Crossword Religion Religious
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
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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Favorite Loud Turns
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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Half Laughing Mouths
There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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Different Thinking Two
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
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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Emotional Song Together
If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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Play Song Writing
You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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People Too Much Trying
When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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Ask Life People Pushing
Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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Dark Knows Moon

The 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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The 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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