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If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.

Tori Amos

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
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
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
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
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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Explore Names Touching
I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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Caterers Cooks Husband
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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Around Business Made Realizing
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?
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Crew Reading Thinking
The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
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Church Daughter People Play Separation
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Jesus Needs Recovery
Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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Precious Time Wrong
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’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
Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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Mistress Trying Wife

If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.

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