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We Are All Fairies

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We Are All Fairies Living Underneath A Leaf Of A Lily Pad.

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I Want To Be An Integrated Woman.

The World That We All Knew Before, Could Wake Up In Feeling Safe, ... Now It Seems That Everything Has Been Turned Upside Down.

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I've Got Enough Guilt To Start My Own Religion.

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.

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.

I Call That God The Little G. Because The God That We've Been Worshipping Is Not To Me The Supreme Creator. Anybody Who Needs To Control And Make People Feel Ashamed. . .it's Like, 'i Send My Only Begotten Son. . .' Well You Know, That Concept Of Sending A Son Where We As Women Could, Like, Breastfeed Him And Give Him Milk, But He's Not Gonna Soil His Dinky With Us? What's That All About?

And Is It Right, Butterfly, They Like You Better Framed And Dried?

I Would Love To Compose Something For Dance Before I Kick The Bucket, And I'm Not Closed-minded About The Dance, Or The Dance Company.

If You Sing To The Mermaids, They Come When You're Drowning.

Operation Peter Pan Spanned From 1960-62 Whereby Over 14,000 Children Were Sent Away From Their Families In Cuba, Some Never To Reunite Again. Pan Am Flights Took The Children To Miami Fl, 'never-never Land', And The Children Became Known As The 'peter Pans.' I Wrote This Song For My Daughter, And It Is Sung For All The Daughters And Mothers, Fathers And Brothers Who Felt This Pain Of Separation All Because Of Governments And Their Politics.

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.

I Don't Mind A Dirty Girl. But What I Find Tragic Is When We, As Women, Become Not The Subject Of Our Own Story But Someone Else's Object.

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.

To Me Glamour Isn't About Being Sparkly.

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.

...her Entire Life Has Been Devoted To Healing The Deepest, Most Invasive Unseeable Scar That One Can Ever Have.

Many People Lock A Part Of Themselves Away. It's A Bit Sacred.

We All Must Develop A Grounded Clarity For Ourselves.

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

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

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

There Were Times That I Needed To Go To Battle, But How I Went To Battle Wasn't Always The Best Way In.

When You Don't Have People In Your Life Pushing You, Can You Push Yourself?

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Is There Room In My Heart For You To Follow Your Heart?

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I Just Hand Shoes On The Wall. They're Architecture You Know.

The Fact That Religion Plays Such A Part In How People Vote Troubles Me, Troubles Me As A Minister's Daughter. Because I Always Felt That The Separation Of Church And State Was What Our Forefathers And Foremothers Really Fought For.

I'm Obsessed With Crocodiles And Getting Eaten By One. When I Hear That Someone's Been Eaten By A Crocodile Or Shark, I Just Get All Gooey. I Start Salivating.

Sometimes You Are Forced To Defend Your Beliefs. Sometimes You Are Forced To Look At Relationships That Aren't Positive Anymore. There Are Times When I Have Had To Make Peace With The Fact That I Am At War. And Sometimes You Have To Fight Those Who Do Not Want Love To Conquer All.

The Only Way Out Is To Go So Far In.

When I Am Able To Be Present, Listening - Really Listening - To A Viewpoint Described Through Someone Else's Lens, I Am Here In The Now And Alive.

Healing For Me Is Being Able To Sit Next To The Butcher And Say 'yes, I’m Sitting Next To The Butcher Now,' Instead Of Saying 'there Is No Butcher'.

Is Your Place In Heaven Worth Giving Up These Kisses

I Guess You Go Too Far When Pianos Try To Be Guitars.

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

Right Now, Half The World Is Depressed And They Need To Be Entertained.

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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.

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

On Some Of My Darkest Days, Lucifer's The One Who Comes And Gives Me An Ice Cream.

I've Been Known To Throw Watermelons, Backstage, At People Who Are Giving Me News I Don't Want To Hear. But I Never Aim For The Head.

I Think Even In A Good Marriage, Especially If You Stay Together Long Enough, There Are Going To Be Events That Happen.

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?

We Can All Choose To Become Our Potential, Not Just Talk About It Or Dream About It. But Daily, Make A Shift Whereby We Begin Living And Being Our Potential. With Each Day, That Potential Can Expand Because We Are Open To Learning Something Every Day.

My Father Has A Pragmatic Mind. He Marched With Dr King In The 60s, And He's Very Much For Women's Rights.

Nothing's Gonna Stop Me From Floating

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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.

I've Got Tonnes Of Aboriginal And Native American Art, But I'd Like Even More.

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Sometimes I Breathe You In And I Know You Know.

And My Saab Is So Great I'm Gonna Marry It.

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

I Think That People Who Can't Believe In Fairies Aren't Worth Knowing.

I Can't Have Discussions About It Anymore, I Just Can't. When Someone Asks Me If I've Found Jesus, I Say, 'yeah, I Saw Him At A Nirvana Concert A Couple Of Years Ago.' It's Like, Jesus Has Got Things To Do, He's Got A Ten O'clock. He's Not Going To Fix Things For Me, I Have To Fix Things For Myself, So I Try And Have A Sense Of Humor About It And Nobody Finds My Humor Very Amusing. We've Just Got To Lighten Up On The Savior Bit, Folks. You Know, Get Off The Cross, We Need The Wood.

I'm A Winter Girl. I Like Coming Out When Things Are Desolate And Everybody's Ready To Slit Their Wrists.

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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I'm Too Wacky For Most Weirdos. Who Am I To Judge?

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Everybody Told Me This 'girl On The Piano' Thing Was Never Going To Work.

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Press The Button, Pump The Water, Build The Pressure, Push The Piston, Press The Button. It's The Perfect Job.

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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.

There Are Quite A Few Very Funny People In My Life. You Know Those People Who Don't Mean To Be Funny, They Just Come Out With These Zingers That Just Make You Howl With Laughter. Usually You Find These People In The Road Crew. A Good Crew Is A Key To A Healthy Funny Bone.

As The Sun Sets, We've All Had Those Nights Where You Question Your Choices And Where Your Life Is Going.

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There Is An Energy That You Carry When You're Nurturing Another Life Where You're Protecting First - And Once You Know That Cub Is Out Of The Way Of The Hunter's Gun, You Can Be A Little More Daring.

You Know When People Smile Too Much? It's Painful. I Find It Really Painful. Happy Is Not Very Reliable. I'm Trying To Live Like, Um, With A Fierce Calm.

We Are All Fairies Living Underneath A Leaf Of A Lily Pad.

I Have Built My World Through Native American Mythology.

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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.

If You Don't Think, And You Have No Wit And You Have So Many Hangups That You Can't Look Beyond Your Cup Of Coffee Then You're Never Going To Understand What I'm Really Saying. Because You Know What? You're Going To Shut Down And Close Off Before You Hear Me. If I'm Threatening You, You're Going To See It The Way You Need To See It So You Can Dismiss Me.

I Like Butter And The People Who Like Butter.

I Collect Art Books. I Have Hundreds And Hundreds Of Them And They Get Me To Start Hearing Things. Sometimes People Look At Them, But I Find That Visual Art Gets Me Listening, Gets Me Hearing Things.

Not Everyone Wants You To Become Your Potential, For Whatever Reason.

I'm A Hard Worker. I Get My Hands Dirty.

In Real Life I'm Bone Dry And When I Play I'm A Mango And In Sex I'm Starving To Be A Dripping Mango

I'm Really Quite Happy To Say That In My Early 40s, I Wake Up Feeling Sexy, And I Can't Say I Felt That Way In My Late 20s.

My Ears Are Huge. If There's Ever A Problem With A Plane I'm On, They Could Just Put Me On The Wing And I'll Land The Sucker.

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I'm Really Quite Happy To Say That In My Early 40s, I Wake Up Feeling Sexy, And I Can't Say I Felt That Way In My Late 20s.

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

My Fear Is Greater Than My Faith, But I Walk The Missionary Way.

There Are Ways To Stimulate Being Prolific, And Part Of That Is Making Pilgrimages, And Being Open To Listening, Changing Up The Routine.

So, You Can Make Me Come, That Doesn't Make You Jesus.

Our World Is A Huge Mess Right Now, And Not Big Enough For Masses Of Intolerant People.

There's A Sea Secret In Me / It's Plain To See It Is Rising / But I Must Be Flowing Liquid Diamonds / Calling For My Soul / At The Corners Of The World

Her Cover Version Of Smells Like Teen Spirit Is The Reason Kurt Killed Himself.

When We Get In A Routine We Can Become Zombie-like And Shut Down.

Those Of You Who Are Strong Need To Be There For Those Who Have Lost Someone Today. We Have To Be Here For Each Other Right Now.

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.

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.

I Know People Sometimes Have This Fantasy About Cornwall. But The Cornish Are So Grounded.

There Are Enough Scary Rock & Roll Mothers In The World.

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

I've Always Seen The Songs As Having A Consciousness. Since I Was Two-and-a-half They Would Come To Me From Nowhere. I Never Thought That I Was Conjuring Them By Myself, And I Was Always Grateful They Would Come And Visit... They've Always Been Very Much Alive. They Don't Have A Physical Body Like We Do But There Seems To Be An Awareness.

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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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.

The Sun Is Getting Dim, Will I Pay For Who I've Been?

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I Would Love To Compose Something For Dance Before I Kick The Bucket, And I'm Not Closed-minded About The Dance, Or The Dance Company.

You Don't Have To Justify Everything. Being Pissed Off Is Just Absolutely Okay.

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.

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.

I've Been Known To Throw Watermelons, Backstage, At People Who Are Giving Me News I Don't Want To Hear. But I Never Aim For The Head.

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

What I Want Is Not To Want What Isn't Mine

An Angel's Face Is Tricky To Wear Constantly.

I Think Having A Child Can Really Change You If You're Open To It.

The Word 'confession,' To Me, Means Needing To Be Absolved. I'm Not Asking For Forgiveness. I'm Not Asking People To Understand. I'd Like To Think That I Tell Stories And Sometimes My Life Weaves Through It.

The Truth Lies In Between The 1st And The 40th Drink

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

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I'm The Queen Of The Nerds.

People Assume That All Artists Make For Terrible Business People, But I'm In Complete Charge Of My Own Career.

And My Saab Is So Great I'm Gonna Marry It.

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

I Don't Really Cook. There Are Caterers, And My Husband Cooks.

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I'm Obsessed With Crocodiles And Getting Eaten By One. When I Hear That Someone's Been Eaten By A Crocodile Or Shark, I Just Get All Gooey. I Start Salivating.

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

If You're A Lame Brain, Then You're A Lame Brain. I Can't Help That.

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.

Father Lucifer, You Never Looked So Sane.

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

My Grandmother Really Liked Virgins. There's Nothing Wrong With Virgins, There's A Time And A Place For That. I Had Other Things On My Mind... Like Robert Plant.

In My New Life, No Room For A Lost Boy.

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

Well, I Have A Lot Of Food References In My Work.

I Really Respect Anybody Who Stands By Their Truth.

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.

Finding People In Your Life As Sounding Boards Who Can Be Neutral And Clear Is Worth Nurturing.

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

Like Being Alone

As The Sun Sets, We've All Had Those Nights Where You Question Your Choices And Where Your Life Is Going.

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.

People Are The Most Fascinating Mysteries I've Ever Read.

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

I Don't Own A Computer. I Have A Nine-foot Piano In My Home To Compose My Messages. Why Would I Want A One-foot Computer To Do The Same Thing?

Have A Seat, While I Take To The Sky.

I'm Really Into Moderation. Too Much Of Anything Will Harm You In The End. Too Much Sugar. Too Much Pasta. I'm Into Drugs As A Teaching Tool, Which Is Why I Only Take Hallucinogenics. I Mean, It's Not Like I've Never Done Cocaine, But, On The Whole, If I Can't See Dancing Elephants Then I'm Not Interested.

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You Don't Have To Justify Everything. Being Pissed Off Is Just Absolutely Okay.

You Really Do Kind Of Learn A Lot About A Person When You Watch And Listen To The Songs That Mean Something To Them.

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

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.

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

My Parents Think I'm Better Under Pressure.

I'm A Classic Emerald Green Sixties Jaguar That Nobody Can Own, But My Husband Is Allowed To Drive.

Pretty Is Never Beautiful.

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?

When We Get In A Routine We Can Become Zombie-like And Shut Down.

I Think There Are Pieces Of Me You've Never Seen.

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

God Sometimes You Just Don't Come Through, Do You Need A Woman To Look After You?

And Is It Right, Butterfly, They Like You Better Framed And Dried?

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

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

Women Must Understand That Simply Attacking Or Hating Men Is Just Another Form Of Disempowerment. A Woman Has To Realize That When She Makes A Man Crawl It Doesn't Give Her Power.

People Are The Most Fascinating Mysteries I've Ever Read.

There Is A Phenomenal Amount Of Pressure On Women In This Industry: They Are Considered Vintage By The Time They Hit Their Mid-30s.

I Am The Worst Influence. If You Can't Handle Your Vices, Then I Am The Devil.

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

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.

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

My Father Was A Minister And So Rock Music Was Banned In Our House.

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

In Order For My Live Performance To Work, Which Is About Generating A Focused Energy For About An Hour And A Half, It Is Necessary For Me To Listen And Take In Someone Else's Focused Energy The Day Of Or The Day Before The Live Show. That Can Transpire Through A Conversation, Or Inspiration Can Occur By Looking Through Any Type Of Visual Book Which Sparks A Narrative. That Narrative Then Becomes Today's Seed And Can Then Take Root In Music Terms, Where A Sonic Tree Begins To Grow.

Got A Little Red Line That Tells You, Boy Where The Razor's Been.

I Remember Driving To North Carolina When I Was A Little Girl In A Snowstorm To Get Down To My Mom's Family In The Carolinas. There Were Chains On The Car - It Was The Late Sixties - And We Were Just Singing In The Car. Christmas Carols.

I Survived This Torture Which Left Me Paralyzed For Years. That's What That Night Was All About, Mutilation, More Than Violence Through Sex. I Really Do Feel As Though I Was Psychologically Mutilated That Night And Now I'm Trying To Put The Pieces Back Together Again. Through Love, Not Hatred. And Through My Music. My Strength Has Been To Open Again, To Life, And My Victory Is The Fact That, Despite It All, I Kept Alive My Vulnerability.

The Sense Of Loss Is Such A Tricky One, Because We Always Feel Like Our Worth Is Tied Up Into Stuff That We Have, Not That Our Worth Can Grow With Things We Are Willing To Lose.

I'm Trying Not To Move, It's Just Your Ghost Passing Through

Men Have Periods Too, They Just Don't Bleed.

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

I Call That God The Little G. Because The God That We've Been Worshipping Is Not To Me The Supreme Creator. Anybody Who Needs To Control And Make People Feel Ashamed. . .it's Like, 'i Send My Only Begotten Son. . .' Well You Know, That Concept Of Sending A Son Where We As Women Could, Like, Breastfeed Him And Give Him Milk, But He's Not Gonna Soil His Dinky With Us? What's That All About?

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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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.

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