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I’m very at home working with mythology.

Tori Amos

You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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People Too Much Trying
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
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 think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
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Monsters Soul Thinking
Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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Dark Knows Moon
I don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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Call Shrink Want
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 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 really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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Christ Really Christian Love
Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
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Jobs Perfect Work
Nothing’s gonna stop me from floating
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Floating Nothing Stop
I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Everything Found Secret
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
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
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
There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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Able Men Women Younger

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