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Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

Tori Amos

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 don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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Caterers Cooks Husband
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
Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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Ice Cream Insanity Manson
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.
TORI AMOS

Half Laughing Mouths
To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
TORI AMOS

Being Glamour Sparkly
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 think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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Theme Thinking Variation
Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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Mistress Trying Wife
At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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Cook Macrobiotic Mother
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
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.
TORI AMOS

Art Believe Confused Source
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
I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
TORI AMOS

Art Books Hearing Things
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.
TORI AMOS

Believe Flying Home
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
TORI AMOS

Beer Cob Corn Father

Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

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Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

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