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Tori Amos

Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
TORI AMOS

Jobs Perfect Work
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
Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
TORI AMOS

Able Healing Sitting
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
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
TORI AMOS

Dance Happiness Really True
Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.
TORI AMOS

Coffee Discipline Zombie
I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?
TORI AMOS

Crew Reading Thinking
There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
TORI AMOS

Able Men Women Younger
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
TORI AMOS

Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
TORI AMOS

Christianity Looks Myth
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
TORI AMOS

Father Kings Rights
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother
I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
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Happen Music Love Trying Works
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
To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
TORI AMOS

Being Glamour Sparkly
I guess my husband is a muse as well.
TORI AMOS

Husband Muse Well

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