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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

Pretty is never beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Pretty
I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
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Daughter Mother Song
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
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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Precious Time Wrong
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
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
I want to be an integrated woman.
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Integrated Want Woman
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
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
Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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Antlers People Sheep
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks
As the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
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Choices Night Sun
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
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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Bleeding Knees Trying
I’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.
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Emotional Moving Player
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 have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!
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Drunk Moisture Water Way
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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Changing Your Life Littles
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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Explore Names Touching
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
I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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Being Glamour Sparkly
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
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.
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Guy Jesus Years
If you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
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Children Night 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

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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