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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

I’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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Dirty Esteem Low Self Sheets
After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That’s when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
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Occur Piano Players Singer
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
Look, I’m standing naked before you; Don’t you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can’t claim innocence.
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Looks Naked Sex
If you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
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Children Night Thinking
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
Pretty is never beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Pretty
I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.
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Mean Something Soul Thinking
I’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
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Industry Men Music Powerful
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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Theme Thinking Variation
Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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Ice Cream Insanity Manson
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.
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Coffee Discipline Zombie
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 think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
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Long Thinking Together
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks
If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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Challenges Deals Want
An interview will seem very sane to me, and I’ll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
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Half Laughing Mouths
I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you’re not hiding anymore. It’s really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.
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Giving Pioneers Taught
Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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Mistress Trying Wife
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
You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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Loses Mind Path
I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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Great Law Mother Relationship
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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Inspirational Seats Sky
You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Justify Off Okay Pissed
Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
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Jobs Perfect Work

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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