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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.

Tori Amos

I like involved projects.
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Country Involved People Projects
I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
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Happen Music Love Trying Works
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
People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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Fascinating Mystery People
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
My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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Favorite Loud Turns
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
You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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Justify Pissed Off
Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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Crazy Friendship Maybe Understood
Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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Crossword Religion Religious
got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
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Boys Harm Self Suicide
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks
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
Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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Dark Knows Moon
Don’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.
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Foolish Giving Minded Tonight
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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might Song Sound
To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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Being Glamour Sparkly
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
Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said ‘no.’ I mean, you just don’t want to marry someone you’ve wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!
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Fart Mean Thirteen Want
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
Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
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Believe Order Powerful
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
There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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Hard Matter Strange
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Christianity Looks Myth
I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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Christ Really Christian Love
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working

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