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

Tori Amos

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
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
An interview will seem very sane to me, and I’ll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
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Half Laughing Mouths
I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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Dirty Hands Worker
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
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
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
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
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.
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Emotional Moving Player
I’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
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Industry Men Music Powerful
Anyone who doesn’t belive in Faeries, isn’t worth knowing.
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Believe Knowing
You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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Loses Mind Path
It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.
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Dragon Go Journey Letting
got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
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Boys Harm Self Suicide
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.
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Jazz Complicated Looks World

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

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