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

Tori Amos

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.
TORI AMOS

Half Laughing Mouths
The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.
TORI AMOS

Away Going Ice Cream Men
I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn’t get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.
TORI AMOS

Guy Jesus Years
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
TORI AMOS

Play Real Sex
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.’
TORI AMOS

Home Plant Video
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.
TORI AMOS

Mean Something Soul Thinking
I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
TORI AMOS

Caterers Cooks Husband
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
TORI AMOS

People Privilege Stories
Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
TORI AMOS

Choices Different Growth
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
TORI AMOS

Drowning Mermaid
Nothing’s gonna stop me from floating
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Floating Nothing Stop
I like involved projects.
TORI AMOS

Country Involved People Projects
I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
TORI AMOS

Honest Myself Weird
You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
TORI AMOS

Loses Mind Path
The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, ‘Sometimes I just breathe you in.’
TORI AMOS

Important Music Sometimes
I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
TORI AMOS

Christ Really Christian Love

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