Ani Difranco - Fire Door (live)
i’m singing now because my tear ducts are too tired
and my brain is disconnected but my heart is wired
i make such a good statistic
someone should study me now
somebody’s got to be interested in how i feel
just ‘cause i’m here
and i’m real
Tori Amos - Night of Hunters [electronic press kit]
Watching this right now, if I wasn’t in school I think I’d cry.
I went a little crazy and cut up the “You & I” video into parts, and then placed each corresponding part back together. For example, every scene in the video where she’s dancing in the barn are placed together in the order they appear (as are the scenes with her at the piano with Jo/grey wig, as a…
![“I didn’t want her [Tash] looking and hearing me and thinking, “Oh my God, that’s a scary lady!” There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world. I’m able to explain now that the woman who comes and reads bedtime stories and hangs out with her is different than the woman who walks behind that piano. I think this is the first time she’s able to differentiate that. Now that there’s that buffer, there are things in the world it’s time to confront. 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.” -Tori Amos, From March 30, 2006 atRollingstone.com](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxnp3dfuez1qb03xwo1_500.jpg)
“I didn’t want her [Tash] looking and hearing me and thinking, “Oh my God, that’s a scary lady!” There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world. I’m able to explain now that the woman who comes and reads bedtime stories and hangs out with her is different than the woman who walks behind that piano. I think this is the first time she’s able to differentiate that. Now that there’s that buffer, there are things in the world it’s time to confront. 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.” -Tori Amos, From March 30, 2006 atRollingstone.com
“You see, if I was a guy, and I was sitting here with a cigarette in my hand, grabbing my crotch and talking about how I make music because I like fast cars and fucking girls, you’d call me a rockstar. But when I do it in my music and in my videos, because I’m a female, because I make pop music, you’re judgmental and you say that it is distracting… I’m just a rockstar.” -Lady Gaga
“I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive.” -Madonna
