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Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.

Tori Amos

There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music… because I don’t trust humanity that much, and I don’t know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
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Humanity Song Trust
I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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Husband Muse Well
I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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Cook Macrobiotic Mother
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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Follow Heart Room
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells
Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’
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Backstage Saved Stop
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
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Phenomenal Pressure Vintage
There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said ‘Tori, you’ve made it. You’re nothing until you’ve been bootlegged.’
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Home Plant Video
and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
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Make Tree Way
My ears are huge. If there’s ever a problem with a plane I’m on, they could just put me on the wing and I’ll land the sucker.
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Country Ears Land People Wings
I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
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Daughter Mother Song
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 can’t believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that’s what it takes to sail you home.
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Believe Flying Home

Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.

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