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My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he's very much for women's rights.
It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.
My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.
I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!
People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.
Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It's the perfect job.
I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors and it's the shade that defines the light.
Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
I'm a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.
I'm a daughter of a minister and I love chasing the Dark. That which is hidden. I like licking it like ice cream
...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.
I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.
There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.
This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.
Somebody will come backstage and go, 'You saved me.' And I will have to say, 'Stop right there. You saved yourself.'
You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something to them.
I realized that what was most important to me was following my own path, and not the one laid down for me by others.
I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?
Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.
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.
And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.
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.
The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.
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.
Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.
The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe, ... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.
I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
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.
I can't believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that's what it takes to sail you home.
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 don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.
When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
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 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.
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.
Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.
I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.
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.