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I’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.

Tori Amos

I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
TORI AMOS

Believe Dream Nightmare
Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
TORI AMOS

Country People Sometimes Want
I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
TORI AMOS

Daughter Nursing Whale
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
TORI AMOS

Beer Cob Corn Father
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

Aunt Niece Years
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.
TORI AMOS

Jazz Complicated Looks World
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
TORI AMOS

Locks People Sacred
I think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
TORI AMOS

Country Dream People Thinking
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

Emotional Moving Player
If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
TORI AMOS

Age Crystals Hippie
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
TORI AMOS

Food References Wells
There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
TORI AMOS

Hard Matter Strange
I’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s.
TORI AMOS

Feelings Sexy Wake Up
Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
TORI AMOS

Ice Cream Insanity Manson
Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
TORI AMOS

Arizona Honesty Song
Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
TORI AMOS

Crazy Friendship Maybe Understood

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