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Some Of The Biggest Advocates For Feminism Seem To Believe That In Order To Feel Powerful You Have To Make Another Woman Subservient, And That Is Not What Feminism Is About At All.

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Some Of The Biggest Advocates For Feminism Seem To Believe That In Order To Feel Powerful You Have To Make Another Woman Subservient, And That Is Not What Feminism Is About At All.

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Being Able To Still Make Records Is A Privilege. I Don't Take It Casually.

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I Gave Up Trying To Please Others And Started Playing For Myself, And Because I Love Music, Things Naturally Happened Then. Funny How That Works.

These Precious Things, Let Them Bleed.

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I Think That The Nightmares Are Telling Me Things About Myself That I Need To Know. And I Try To Understand What They Mean, So I Can Get To Know Something More About My Soul.

The Violence Betwen Women Is Unbelievable. Women Try To Make Each Other Crawl So That Their Knees Are Bleeding.

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Tell Me You're Crazy, Maybe Then I'll Understand.

I've Been Raising Up My Hands Drive Another Nail In Just What God Needs One More Victim

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In Our Minds, Love And Lust Are Really Separated. It's Hard To Find Someone That Can Be Kind And You Can Trust Enough To Leave Your Kids With, And Isn't Afraid To Throw Her Man Up Against The Wall And Lick Him From Head To Toe.

Adolescence Is That Time When I Think, It Can Be- It's The Cruelest Place On Earth. It Can Really Be Heartless.

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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.

I Started Playing The Piano When I Was About Two And Got A Scholarship To The Peabody Conservatory Of Music In Baltimore When I Was Five. But I Left When I Was 11.

To Me Glamour Isn't About Being Sparkly.

Baker, Baker, Can You Explain, If Truly His Heart Was Made Of Icing.

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Tell Me You're Crazy, Maybe Then I'll Understand.

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I'm A Tomato Freak, But Sometimes You Have To Get It In Ketchup Form For People To Be Able To Open To Tomatoes.

Your Apocalypse Was Fab.

Some People Say, I'd Give Anything To Be 30 Again. Well, I Really Wouldn't. I Didn't Enjoy Being 30.

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I'm Not Like A Poker Player. I'm Not Into Bluff. My Way Is To Look Someone In The Eye And Tell Them The Way I'm Intending To Go. My Cards Are Always On The Table.

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.

I Was Two And A Half When I First Climbed Up And Sat At A Piano.

Tori's My Legal Name. My Niece And Nephews, They All Call Me Aunt Ellen, Because I Went By My Middle Name Years Ago, Before I Turned 18.

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I Think Doing Variations On A Classical Theme Is A Dangerous Thing To Do.

If You Think A Child Is Going To Be Your Accessory... It's Not Like A Micro Pig. It's Not About Putting Them In Front Of The Television. You Need To Read To Them At Night.

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I Am Finding That Vulnerability Gives Me Great Strength, Because You're Not Hiding Anymore. It's Really About Being A Pioneer For Myself, Going Into The Places Where I Am Not Being Taught. I Have To Teach Myself.

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You Don't Have To Justify Anything. Being Pissed Off Is Absolutely Ok.

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Your Apocalypse Was Fab.

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I Have So Many Different Personalities In Me And I Still Feel Lonely.

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When You're In Your 20s, There's Maybe A Little Room For You To Not Be At The Top Of Your Artistic Game, If You Look Good On A Magazine Cover. When You're Not On The Cover Of The Magazines Anymore, Then You Realize That The Work Has To Be Great.

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There Is Value In Everybody's Gift. No Matter How Hard To Find Or Strange It Is.

When Interviews Are Good, The Conversation Can Be Amazing. Sometimes I've Had Conversations With Journalists That I've Never Had With Anybody Else.

I Like Butter And The People Who Like Butter.

I've Worked With Many Powerful Men In The Music Industry.

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Carbon Made Only Wants To Be Unmade.

Being In Your Forties - Any Woman Who Isn't There Yet, I Just Have To Say To You: Euphoria Is Coming To You.

I Know I'm An Acquired Taste - I'm Anchovies. And Not Everybody Wants Those Hairy Little Things.

I'm Very At Home Working With Mythology.

A Lot Of The Carols Were Not As You Hear Them Now.

Do We Soon Forget The Things We Cannot See?

Things Go Wrong All The Time; You Can't Be Precious About It.

Muhammad, My Friend, I'm Getting Very Scared. Teach Me How To Love My Brothers Who Don't Know The Law, And What About The Deal On The Flying Trapeze?

Sometimes You Have To Do What You Don't Like To Get To Where You Want To Be.

An Interview Will Seem Very Sane To Me, And I'll Find Out That The Journalist Was Laughing Out Of The Side Of His Mouth Half Of The Time.

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.

Anyone Who Doesn't Belive In Faeries, Isn't Worth Knowing.

It's Fun To Write Your Set List 20 Minutes Before And Keep The Crew Very Much On Their Toes.

I Can See How The Young Girls Really Get Hurt When Their Moms Are Critical, Or Vice Versa When They're Overly Critical Of Their Moms. It Can Be So Painful.

I Get Painted Quite A Bit As A Tragic Figure Because Of Some Of The Stuff That's Happened In My Life.

When I Play Live, It's A Conversation That We're All Having With The Song, And The Audience... Their Response And Relationship With The Songs Is As Valid As My Relationship With The Songs.

Give Me Life, Give Me Pain, Give Me Myself Again.

Things Go Wrong All The Time; You Can't Be Precious About It.

I Hurt Myself Today To See If I Could Feel. I Hurt Myself, You Said To Try To Make Him Feel. So I Hurt Myself Again To See If He'd See Me. I Hurt Myself Again And No, He Never Could See Me.

The Rain Is Sharp Today, As You Shock Me Sane.

The Rain Is Sharp Today, As You Shock Me Sane.

I'm A Grown Woman. I've Earned My Experiences, My Scars.

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

Even If Everything Else Is Downplayed, I'll Wear Good Shoes.

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.

For The Most Part, Pianos Are Female To Me. Sometimes They're Dykes, And They're Always Good Fun.

This Was A Time Frame When Dance Music And Clubs Were Having A Real Impact On Culture, And It Had An Impact On Me.

I Felt Sidelined By The Industry, By The Preoccupation With Finding Something Newer, Younger.

I See The Dream And I See The Nightmare, And I Believe You Can't Have The Dream Without The Nightmare.

I Like Involved Projects. I'm Driven By The Idea Of Characters And The Song-cycle Form Is Similar To A Musical.

I'm Not Not Going To Stop Giving Away What I Feel About Something.

I Had A Very Strict Upbringing With My Dad And Was Very Close To My Mum, Who Was Extremely Loving.

There Is A Time And A Place For Things. Sometimes One Needs To Put A Filter On Oneself. That Can Be A Good Thing.

Do We Soon Forget The Things We Cannot See?

Neil [gaiman, Creator Of The Comic Sandman, Featuring The Amos-based Character Delirium] Believes That Faeries Have Gone Beyond Cool. They've Transcended Cool. I Just Think Alternate Realities Make You A Good Writer. If Your Work Is Any More Than One Dimension, You Believe In Faeries. I'm Sure I'll Start Thinking Now About All The People I Know Who Don't Believe, That I Quite Like. We Can Still Go Have A Pint. Not The Chardonnay, Though.

Sometimes, I Think Trent Just Needs A Cup Of Hot Chocolate And A Blankie.

If You Call Me A New-age, Airy-fairy, Hippie-dippy Airhead I Will Shove My Crystals Up Your Ass.

Being Able To Hear An Opinion. And Then How To Apply That Opinion Is Something I Am Learning And Working With Every Day. What Can Be Tricky Is How To Differentiate A Good Suggestion That You Should Apply To Your Work [from] Someone's Personal Taste At Their Opinionated Best.

I've Been Looking For A Savior In These Dirty Streets, Looking For A Savior Beneath These Dirty Sheets.

Low Self Esteem

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.

You'd Think That In This Age, Especially In The 21st Century - Especially With All The Technology And All The Discoveries That We've Made - That We Would Figure Out How To Tackle Abuse.

My Favorite Saying Is, 'if It's Too Loud, Turn It Up.'

I Have A Great Relationship With My Mother-in-law. We're Both Leos, We Understand Each Other.

Great Relationship

Take A Different Route To The Coffee Shop To See What You Can See And Hear. When We Get In A Routine, We Can Become Zombie-like And Shut Down. It's About Discipline. You Have To Push Yourself.

Every Place You Land In Life Has A Reason And A Lesson.

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.

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.

Romance Is Important To Me, And To Have A Romance With Your Husband Takes A Bit Of Doing. The Key Is To Make Sure Your Partner Misses You. That Means You Have To Take Yourself Away.

I'm A Daughter Of A Minister And I Love Chasing The Dark. That Which Is Hidden. I Like Licking It Like Ice Cream

The Pop World Has Really Opened Its Doors.

Have A Seat, While I Take To The Sky.

If You Can Surrender Your Protection Devices, In Order To Track The Potentially Raw And Perhaps Elusive Emotions That Are The Song's Dna, Then That Is Creative Vulnerability, Which Is Ultimately Hugely Empowering.

You're Just An Empty Cage Girl, If You Kill The Bird.

My Father Was Strict, But He Recognised My Ability And Got A Lot Of Flak From The Church For Supporting Me.

When You Stop Putting Yourself On The Line, And You Don't Touch Your Own Heart, How Do You Expect To Touch Other People?

So Close To Touching Freedom, Then I Hear The Guards Call My Name

Sometimes, I Think Trent Just Needs A Cup Of Hot Chocolate And A Blankie.

Sometimes I Hear My Voice And It's Been Here, Silent All These Years

I Believe In Rainbows And All Of That. But There Are Darker Colors And It's The Shade That Defines The Light.

I'm Not Somebody That Gets Played A Lot At Parties And Weddings. I Mean, You Know, You Mention My Name And You Get An Eye Roll, Until, Of Course, You're Jumping Off A Bridge.

My Favorite Saying Is, 'if It's Too Loud, Turn It Up.'

I Wanted To Marry Lucifer... I Don't Consider Lucifer An Evil Force...i Feel His Presence With His Music. I Feel Like He Comes And Sits On My Piano.

I Get Painted Quite A Bit As A Tragic Figure Because Of Some Of The Stuff That's Happened In My Life.

Getting People To Go Above And Beyond The Call Of Duty Can Be Achieved But Only If You, The Artist, Are Willing To Go Above And Beyond Any And All Calls Of Duty Yourself.

It's Fun To Write Your Set List 20 Minutes Before And Keep The Crew Very Much On Their Toes.

There Is Value In Everybody's Gift. No Matter How Hard To Find Or Strange It Is.

Anything A Wife Should Do, I'm Terrible At. Anything A Mistress Should Do, I'll Try.

I'm Standing Naked Before You. Don't You Want More Than Sex?

Pretty Is Never Beautiful.

Sometimes Those Demons Are Frightening And Sometimes They're Beautiful.

Our Generation Has An Incredible Amount Of Realism, Yet At The Same Time It Loves To Complain And Not Really Change. Because, If It Does Change, Then It Won't Have Anything To Complain About.

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.

There's Room For Everybody On The Planet To Be Creative And Conscious If You Are Your Own Person. If You're Trying To Be Like Somebody Else, Then There Is Isn't.

I Believe In Rainbows And All Of That. But There Are Darker Colors And It's The Shade That Defines The Light.

I Don't Feel I'm As Good A Mum As My Mum Was.

And Maybe She Had Certain Beliefs That If You Love Somebody, [you're] Gonna Like Them Too. And That Isn't Necessarily True.

People Can Be Quite Bullish With Their Opinions. That Does Not Mean They Have Their Finger On The Pulse. It Just Means They Value Their Own Opinion.

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.

Standin' On A Corner In Winslow, Arizona, And I'm Quite Sure I'm In The Wrong Song.

It's Emotional Blackmail To Say If You're A Good Businesswoman And A Musician, You're Betraying Your Music.

If You Are A Nurturing Mother, And A Good One, You Can Go To Play Groups, Sit On The Floor And Play All The Games, And Have Tea With The Other Mothers, But Wouldn't You Like To Think That's Not All There Is? That You Haven't Hung Up Your High Heels Without Knowing How To Walk In Them?

My Brother Was A Fantastic Cheerleader For My Development As A Musician. He Was Almost 10 Years Older Than Me And Would Really Push Me To Develop As A Songwriter.

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.

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