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I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.

Tori Amos

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.’
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Home Plant Video
You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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Justify Pissed Off
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
I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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Beautiful Boys Christian
There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
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Listening Routine Way
A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
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Music Play Song
I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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Guitar Piano Trying
If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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Play Song Writing
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
I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Change Children Thinking
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 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
Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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Choices Different Growth
The last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
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Girl Survivor Want
I’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
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Industry Men Music Powerful
There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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Hard Matter Strange

I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.

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