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It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.

Tori Amos

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells
I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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Honest Myself Weird
If you can’t create physical life, you find a life force. If that’s in music, that’s in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
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Hands Moving Sorrow
I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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Grown Women Scar
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
The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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Magic Music Naps
The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.
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Choices Growing Keys Up
Don’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.
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Foolish Giving Minded Tonight
For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.
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Emotional Song Together
I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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Great Law Mother Relationship
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
When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
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Conversation Interviews Sometimes
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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Bleeding Knees Trying
Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said ‘no.’ I mean, you just don’t want to marry someone you’ve wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!
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Fart Mean Thirteen Want
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
If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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Brain Helping Lame

It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.

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It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.

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