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If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.

Tori Amos

I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
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Daughter Mother Song
You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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Loses Mind Path
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
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
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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Clarity Country Grounded People
There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
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Listening Routine Way
The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.
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Choices Growing Keys Up
I think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
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Country Dream People Thinking
I’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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Dirty Esteem Low Self Sheets
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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Art Chocolate Thinking
A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
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Music Play Song
I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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Caterers Cooks Husband
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
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

If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.

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