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Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.

Tori Amos

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
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
If you can’t create physical life, you find a life force. If that’s in music, that’s in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
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Hands Moving Sorrow
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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Follow Heart Room
I think that other people covering my work is really exciting… Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.
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Art People Thinking
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
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
Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Jesus Needs Recovery
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
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That’s when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
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Occur Piano Players Singer
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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Changing Your Life Littles
I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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Careers Country People
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
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

Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.

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