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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.

Tori Amos

If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
TORI AMOS

Play Song Writing
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
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.
TORI AMOS

Emotional Song Together
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.
TORI AMOS

Emotional Moving Player
Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
TORI AMOS

Coming Euphoria Forty
There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
TORI AMOS

Different Thinking Two
Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
TORI AMOS

Art Chocolate Thinking
I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
TORI AMOS

Change Children Thinking
Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
TORI AMOS

Country People Sometimes Want
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
TORI AMOS

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

Foolish Giving Minded Tonight
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
TORI AMOS

Dance Happiness Really True
I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
TORI AMOS

Caterers Cooks Husband
I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
TORI AMOS

Allow Challenges Trip
The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.
TORI AMOS

Away Going Ice Cream Men
To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
TORI AMOS

Being Glamour Sparkly

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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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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