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It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.

Tori Amos

I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
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Daughter Mother Song
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
If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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Challenges Deals Want
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
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
I don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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Call Shrink Want
I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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Coming Girl Out Winter
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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Come Jesus Make Music
Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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Precious Time Wrong
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
I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
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Monsters Soul Thinking
My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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Favorite Loud Turns
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

It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.

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It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.

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