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I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.

Tori Amos

To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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Great Law Mother Relationship
Pretty is never beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Pretty
You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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Justify Pissed Off
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
I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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Dirty Hands Worker
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
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
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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Feelings Last Way
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
It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.
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Dragon Go Journey Letting
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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Believe Dream Nightmare
Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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Antlers People Sheep
Look, I’m standing naked before you; Don’t you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can’t claim innocence.
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Looks Naked Sex
The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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Magic Music Naps
Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
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Jobs Perfect Work
You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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Loses Mind Path
When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
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Conversation Interviews Sometimes
I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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Grown Women Scar
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
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
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
These precious things, let them bleed.
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Philosophy Precious Things
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
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 wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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Beautiful Boys Christian

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