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Tori Amos

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
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
I think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
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Country Dream People Thinking
When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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Ask Life People Pushing
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
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
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.
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Able Men Women Younger
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
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
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
and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
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Make Tree Way
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
I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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Careers Country People
I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Change Children Thinking
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
As the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
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Choices Night Sun

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