"Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair"
"I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs."
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Source: Song: God Is Watching, Album: Amen, 1999
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