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Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.

Tori Amos

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
Nothing’s gonna stop me from floating
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Floating Nothing Stop
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks
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
There’s a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
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Jazz Complicated Looks World
I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
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Long Thinking Together
I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
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
We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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Clarity Country Grounded 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 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.
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Believe Flying Home
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Christianity Looks Myth
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
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
The word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
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Mean People Thinking

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