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Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.

Tori Amos

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
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
Pretty is never beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Pretty
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
TORI AMOS

Challenges Deals 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
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
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks
I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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Grown Women Scar
I like involved projects.
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Country Involved People Projects
Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.
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Coffee Discipline Zombie
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 really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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Christ Really Christian Love
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
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
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

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