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Tori Amos

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
My ears are huge. If there’s ever a problem with a plane I’m on, they could just put me on the wing and I’ll land the sucker.
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Country Ears Land People Wings
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
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
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Christianity Looks Myth
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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Precious Time Wrong
Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
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might Song Sound
Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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Crazy Friendship Maybe Understood
Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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Dark Knows Moon
I can’t believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that’s what it takes to sail you home.
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Believe Flying Home
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
Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Jesus Needs Recovery
Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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Ice Cream Insanity Manson
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
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’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.

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