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When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

Tori Amos

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
It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.
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Dragon Go Journey Letting
I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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Guitar Piano Trying
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
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells
I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
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Happen Music Love Trying Works
In real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango
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Play Real Sex
Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’
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Backstage Saved Stop
There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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Different Thinking Two
You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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Justify Pissed Off
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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Around Business Made Realizing
I don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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Call Shrink Want
I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Change Children Thinking
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
I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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Allow Challenges Trip

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

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