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I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.

Tori Amos

I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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Coming Girl Out Winter
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
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother
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
Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
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Arizona Honesty Song
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
Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
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Energy Focus Results
Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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Antlers People Sheep
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
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
I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.
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Mean Something Soul Thinking
You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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Justify Pissed Off
I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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Dirty Hands Worker
There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said ‘Tori, you’ve made it. You’re nothing until you’ve been bootlegged.’
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Home Plant Video
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 wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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Daughter Nursing Whale
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.
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Art Believe Confused Source
Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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Crossword Religion Religious
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
I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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Allow Challenges Trip
You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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Loses Mind Path
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Everything Found Secret
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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Explore Names Touching
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
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’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 really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.

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