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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.

Tori Amos

A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
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Happen Music Love Trying Works
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks
The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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Magic Music Naps
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
There’s a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
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Jazz Complicated Looks World
If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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Play Song Writing
Pretty is never beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Pretty
Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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Dark Knows Moon
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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Changing Your Life Littles
I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
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Art Books Hearing Things
There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
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Listening Routine Way
I’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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Dirty Esteem Low Self Sheets
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

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.

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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.

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