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I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.

Tori Amos

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.
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Aunt Niece Years
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
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
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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Theme Thinking Variation
After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That’s when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
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Occur Piano Players Singer
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
People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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Fascinating Mystery People
I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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Dirty Hands Worker
You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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Loses Mind Path
Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
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might Song Sound
For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.
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Emotional Song Together
Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Jesus Needs Recovery
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
As the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
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Choices Night Sun
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
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother

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