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When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.

Tori Amos

If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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Brain Helping Lame
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.
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Monsters Soul Thinking
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
If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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Challenges Deals Want
I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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Beautiful Boys Christian
I’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
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Able People Tomatoes
I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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Guitar Piano Trying
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 don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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Call Shrink Want
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’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
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Industry Men Music Powerful
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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Theme Thinking Variation
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
At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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Cook Macrobiotic Mother
The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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Magic Music Naps
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

When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.

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