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Tori Amos

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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Daughter Nursing Whale
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
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
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
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother
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 think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
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
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’.
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Able Healing Sitting
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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Bleeding Knees Trying
You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Justify Off Okay Pissed
The word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
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Mean People Thinking
Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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Crossword Religion Religious
I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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Dirty Hands Worker
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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Age Crystals Hippie

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