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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

Tori Amos

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
Tori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
TORI AMOS

Aunt Niece Years
I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
TORI AMOS

Monsters Soul Thinking
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
I’m not like a poker player. I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
TORI AMOS

Cards Eye Player Table
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
Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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Precious Time Wrong
You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.
TORI AMOS

Healing Lying People
Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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Inspirational Seats Sky
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
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.’
TORI AMOS

Home Plant Video
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 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
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
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
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Beer Cob Corn Father
I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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Caterers Cooks Husband

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