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Tori Amos

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
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
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Father Kings Rights
I’m not like a poker player. I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
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Cards Eye Player Table
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
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
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
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
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
I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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Guitar Piano Trying
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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Explore Names Touching
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
Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
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Country People Sometimes Want
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
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’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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Grown Women Scar
Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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Dark Knows Moon
I’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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Dirty Esteem Low Self Sheets
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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Theme Thinking Variation
I think that other people covering my work is really exciting… Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.
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Art People Thinking
I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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Careers Country People
People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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Fascinating Mystery People
Don’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.
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Foolish Giving Minded Tonight
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
If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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Brain Helping Lame
Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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Crossword Religion Religious
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother
Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Art Media Pain

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