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I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

Tori Amos

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks
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
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
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
Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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Precious Time Wrong
I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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Guitar Piano 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
I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
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Long Thinking Together
I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
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Art Books Hearing Things
Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Art Media Pain
I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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Christ Really Christian Love
I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you’re not hiding anymore. It’s really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.
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Giving Pioneers Taught
I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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Careers Country People
People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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Fascinating Mystery People
If you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
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Children Night Thinking

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

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