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Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.

Tori Amos

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
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Church Daughter People Play Separation
I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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Grown Women Scar
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
Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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Precious Time Wrong
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
Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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Follow Heart Room
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells
Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
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Energy Focus Results
I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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Christ Really Christian Love
The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.
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Choices Growing Keys Up
We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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Clarity Country Grounded People
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
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
You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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People Too Much Trying
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

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