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Tori Amos

I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
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Believe Dream Nightmare
Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
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Believe Order Powerful
If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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Brain Helping Lame
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
I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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Allow Challenges Trip
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
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 ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
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Listening Routine Way
I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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Careers Country People
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 wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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Beautiful Boys Christian
You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.
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Healing Lying People
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
Some people say, I’d give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn’t. I didn’t enjoy being 30.
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Enjoy Giving People
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
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Christianity Looks Myth

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