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Tori Amos

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
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
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
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
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
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
My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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Ability Church Father
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Jesus Needs Recovery
I’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.
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Emotional Moving Player
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
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
A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
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Music Play Song
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
These precious things, let them bleed.
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Philosophy Precious Things

So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name

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