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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

Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’
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Backstage Saved Stop
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
People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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Fascinating Mystery People
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
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
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
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
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
I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Everything Found Secret
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother
There’s a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
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Jazz Complicated Looks World
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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Aboriginal Art Country Native People
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True

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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