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Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.

Tori Amos

There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music… because I don’t trust humanity that much, and I don’t know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
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Humanity Song Trust
I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Everything Found Secret
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
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
I want to be an integrated woman.
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Integrated Want Woman
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 don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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Allow Challenges Trip
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
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
There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said ‘Tori, you’ve made it. You’re nothing until you’ve been bootlegged.’
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Home Plant Video
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
We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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Clarity Country Grounded People
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
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Listening Routine Way
Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Jesus Needs Recovery
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

Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.

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