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I’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.

Tori Amos

I think that other people covering my work is really exciting… Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.
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Art People Thinking
Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
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Energy Focus Results
Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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Crossword Religion Religious
I don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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Call Shrink Want
I’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
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Industry Men Music Powerful
I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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Allow Challenges Trip
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.
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Half Laughing Mouths
I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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Caterers Cooks Husband
I’m not like a poker player. I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
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Cards Eye Player Table
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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Theme Thinking Variation
I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
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Believe Dream Nightmare
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.
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People Too Much Trying
I want to be an integrated woman.
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Integrated Want Woman
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.
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Mean People Thinking
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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Girl Survivor Want
Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.
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Coffee Discipline Zombie

I’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.

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I’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.

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