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I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.

Tori Amos

got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
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Boys Harm Self Suicide
If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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Brain Helping Lame
I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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Coming Girl Out Winter
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
Don’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.
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Foolish Giving Minded Tonight
Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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Mistress Trying Wife
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
There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
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Phenomenal Pressure Vintage
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
The last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
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Girl Survivor Want
There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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Hard Matter Strange
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
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
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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Art Believe Confused Source
Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
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Arizona Honesty Song
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

I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.

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