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I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.

Tori Amos

I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?
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Crew Reading Thinking
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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Occur Piano Players Singer
If you can’t create physical life, you find a life force. If that’s in music, that’s in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
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Hands Moving Sorrow
I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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Grown Women Scar
You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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Justify Pissed Off
I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you’re not hiding anymore. It’s really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.
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Giving Pioneers Taught
I’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s.
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Feelings Sexy Wake Up
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
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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Explore Names Touching
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music… because I don’t trust humanity that much, and I don’t know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
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Humanity Song Trust
People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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Fascinating Mystery People
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
I like involved projects.
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Country Involved People Projects
My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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Ability Church Father
There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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Hard Matter Strange

I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.

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