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Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.

Tori Amos

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
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks
I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
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
The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.
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Away Going Ice Cream Men
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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Theme Thinking Variation
Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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Crazy Friendship Maybe Understood
I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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Coming Girl Out Winter
Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
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Able Healing Sitting
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
Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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Dark Knows Moon
I think that other people covering my work is really exciting… Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.
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Art People Thinking
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
Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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Follow Heart Room
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working

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