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I’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.

Tori Amos

Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
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
Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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Choices Different Growth
Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
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Coming Euphoria Forty
If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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Play Song Writing
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
There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
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Phenomenal Pressure Vintage
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Christianity Looks Myth
Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Jesus Needs Recovery
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
If you can’t create physical life, you find a life force. If that’s in music, that’s in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
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Hands Moving Sorrow
Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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Art Chocolate Thinking
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother
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
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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Aunt Niece Years
The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.
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Art Believe Confused Source

I’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.

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