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There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

Tori Amos

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 tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
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Able People Tomatoes
Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
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Arizona Honesty Song
My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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Ability Church Father
As the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
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Choices Night Sun
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks
I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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Beautiful Boys Christian
Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
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Country People Sometimes Want
I like involved projects.
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Country Involved People Projects
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.
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Country Dream People Thinking
If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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Brain Helping Lame
In real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango
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Play Real Sex
There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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Different Thinking Two
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
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
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality

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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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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