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Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

Tori Amos

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.’
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Home Plant Video
I’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
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Industry Men Music Powerful
Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Art Media Pain
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
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
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
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Father Kings Rights
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
I can’t believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that’s what it takes to sail you home.
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Believe Flying Home
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
I think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
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Country Dream People Thinking
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
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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Changing Your Life Littles
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
Look, I’m standing naked before you; Don’t you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can’t claim innocence.
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Looks Naked Sex
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
I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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Grown Women Scar

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

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Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

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