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I Became A Mom At 37 And Having A Child Has Been An Emancipation For Me.
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I Became A Mom At 37 And Having A Child Has Been An Emancipation For Me.

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Play
People
Musically, I Always Allow Myself To Jump Off Of Cliffs. At Least That's What It Feels Like To Me. Whether That's What It Actually Sounds Like Might Depend On What The Listener Brings To The Songs.
Song
Sound
Might
My Fear Is Greater Than My Faith, But I Walk The Missionary Way.
Religious
Religion
Missionary
There's A Richness To The Old Works If You Look Before The 1950s. The Chord Progressions And The Language Was More Complicated, Especially In The Jazz And Classical World.
Looks
World
Jazz
An Ounce Of Breast Milk Is Even More Potent Than The Finest Tequila.
Milk
Tequila
Finest
If You Jump, You Best Jump Far.
Design
Graphic Design
Graphic
From In The Shadow She Calls. And In The Shadow She Finds A Way, Finds A Way. And In The Shadow She Crawls, Clutching Her Faded Photograph. My Image Under Her Thumb. Yes With A Message For My Heart. She’s Been Everybody Else’s Girl Maybe One Day She’ll Be Her Own.
Girl
Heart
Shadow
I Use Innocence In My Demeanor Like A Venus Flytrap.
Use
Venus
Innocence
She's Been Everybody Else's Girl, Maybe One Day She'll Be Her Own.
Girl
Sex
One Day
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.
Daughter
Mother
Song
I Realized That What Was Most Important To Me Was Following My Own Path, And Not The One Laid Down For Me By Others.
Important
Path
I Realized
There's A Side To This Industry That Nurtures Divas Who Can't Write. It's A Big Business.
Writing
Sides
Bigs
It's About Realizing, Painfully, You've Kept That Voice Inside Yourself, Locked Away From Even Yourself. And You Step Back And See That Your Jailer Has Changed Faces. You Realize You've Become Your Own Jailer.
Voice
Survivor
Faces
I've Got Tonnes Of Aboriginal And Native American Art, But I'd Like Even More.
Art
Native American
Aboriginal
Though I Can't Change What Happened, I Can Choose How To React. And I Don't Want To Spend The Rest Of My Life Being Bitter And Locked Up.
Survivor
Want
Bitter
Got A Little Red Line That Tells You, Boy Where The Razor's Been.
Suicide
Self Harm
Boys
I Don't Really Cook. There Are Caterers, And My Husband Cooks.
Husband
My Husband
Cooks
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.
Moving
Hands
Sorrow
It Took The Love Of A Good Man [to Heal]. When I Was Reverting Back Into My, Let's Say, Perversions, He Would Say: 'let's Go Get An Ice Cream. I Am Not Going To Enable You. If You Can Only Come As A Wanton Woman For Hire, Because You Feel Dirty And Shamed, Then No. Women Are Goddesses.' And I Know That And I Believe That. I Chose A Man Who Believed That, Too.
Believe
Dirty
Men
There Are Things That I Refuse To Deal With Except Through My Music... Because I Don't Trust Humanity That Much, And I Don't Know If I Trust Me That Much. But I Trust The Songs.
Song
Humanity
Trust Me
When You Don't Have People In Your Life Pushing You, Can You Push Yourself?
People
Pushing
People In Your Life
When You Value Your Crew, They Look After You.
Looks
Crew
Values
There Are Things That I Refuse To Deal With Except Through My Music... Because I Don't Trust Humanity That Much, And I Don't Know If I Trust Me That Much. But I Trust The Songs.
Song
Humanity
Trust Me
When They Say Take From My Body, I Think I'll Take From Mine Instead. Getting Off, Getting Off While They're All Down Stairs.
Thinking
Body
Masturbation
That's The Thing About Letting Old Lovers Go. You Don't Stop Loving Some Of Them. There Are A Couple You Love No Less Than You Ever Did. Not To Mention Namesbut I'm Still In Love With A Couple. You're Not Going To Try And Make It Work Again, But If They Needed You, You'd Drop Everything.
Couple
Trying
Lovers
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!
Mean
Want
Fart
Right Now, Half The World Is Depressed And They Need To Be Entertained.
Needs
Half
World
And Is It Right, Butterfly, They Like You Better Framed And Dried?
Butterfly
Framed
Like You
I Do Believe That We All Are, Fundamentally, Divided Creatures. Emotions Split From Intellect, Spirit From Flesh And Far Too Often Sexuality Is Disconnected From What We Feel, And Are, As Total Human Beings. But How, For Example, Can Anyone Have An Understanding Of The Virgin If They Don't Also Have An Understanding Of The Prostitute, The Saint And Sinner In One Body?
Believe
Understanding
Body
I Like Butter And The People Who Like Butter.
People
It's Not As If The Stories Merge To A Point Where You Think They Are Your Life, But You Do Let Them In The Front Door And The Back Door, And It's Okay That Sometimes Certain Characters Stay For Dinner.
Character
Thinking
Doors
At 15, I Knew Someone Whose Mother Cooked Macrobiotic, So I Persuaded My Mother To Go Macrobiotic With Me.
Mother
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