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Don’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.

Tori Amos

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
I’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s.
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Feelings Sexy Wake Up
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
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
The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, ‘Sometimes I just breathe you in.’
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Important Music Sometimes
You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Justify Off Okay Pissed
If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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Challenges Deals Want
Anyone who doesn’t belive in Faeries, isn’t worth knowing.
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Believe Knowing
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 really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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Christ Really Christian Love
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
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
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
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
I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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Daughter Nursing Whale
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

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