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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

Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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Choices Different Growth
Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Art Media Pain
I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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Ask Life People Pushing
Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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Inspirational Seats Sky
I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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Guitar Piano Trying
Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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Precious Time Wrong
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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Theme Thinking Variation
When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
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Conversation Interviews Sometimes
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn’t get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.
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Guy Jesus Years
I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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Careers Country People
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
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
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.
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Different Thinking Two
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

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.

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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.

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