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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
Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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Crossword Religion Religious
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.’
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Important Music Sometimes
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
Nothing’s gonna stop me from floating
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Floating Nothing Stop
There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
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Phenomenal Pressure Vintage
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
When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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Ask Life People Pushing
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
My ears are huge. If there’s ever a problem with a plane I’m on, they could just put me on the wing and I’ll land the sucker.
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Country Ears Land People Wings
I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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Husband Muse Well
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
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
Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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Mistress Trying Wife
The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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Magic Music Naps

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