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Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.

Tori Amos

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
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Monsters Soul Thinking
I like involved projects.
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Country Involved People Projects
I’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
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Industry Men Music Powerful
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
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Christianity Looks Myth
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother
I don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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Call Shrink Want
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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Ability Church Father
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
Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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Art Chocolate Thinking
I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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Guitar Piano Trying
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

Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.

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Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.

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