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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.

Tori Amos

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
So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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Come Jesus Make Music
Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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Crazy Friendship Maybe Understood
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
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
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
You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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Loses Mind Path
Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
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Energy Focus Results
Don’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.
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Foolish Giving Minded Tonight
There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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Hard Matter Strange
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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Aboriginal Art Country Native People
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
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
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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Changing Your Life Littles
Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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Follow Heart Room
Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
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Jobs Perfect Work
We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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Clarity Country Grounded People
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
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
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
Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
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Country People Sometimes Want
I don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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Call Shrink Want
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
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 don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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Honest Myself Weird
Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Jesus Needs Recovery

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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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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