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To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.

Tori Amos

You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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People Too Much Trying
If you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
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Children Night Thinking
I’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s.
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Feelings Sexy Wake Up
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
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
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 found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Everything Found Secret
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
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
and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
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Make Tree Way
There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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Able Men Women Younger
You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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Justify Pissed Off
If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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Challenges Deals Want
I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?
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Crew Reading Thinking
So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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Come Jesus Make Music
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
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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Bleeding Knees Trying
I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
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
After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That’s when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
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Occur Piano Players Singer
The last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
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Girl Survivor Want
I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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Guitar Piano Trying
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
I don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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Call Shrink Want
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
Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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Crossword Religion Religious
Anyone who doesn’t belive in Faeries, isn’t worth knowing.
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Believe Knowing

To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.

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