“There has to be a healing process, the ability to laugh at the end of the day. You can crawl inside your pain, it doesn’t have to be all throw up. Sometimes I feel uncomfortable, sometimes I defy people, but my strength is that I can crawl inside my heart. I’m becoming aware of why I feel what I feel. That doesn’t mean I’m at peace, but I can accept the turbulence. I’m learning to be a free agent, not other people’s victim.”
—Tori Amos, (speaking of the “exorcisms” of Little Earthquakes, 1991)
