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Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.

Tori Amos

Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’
TORI AMOS

Backstage Saved Stop
Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
TORI AMOS

Follow Heart Room
Tori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
TORI AMOS

Aunt Niece Years
Nothing’s gonna stop me from floating
TORI AMOS

Floating Nothing Stop
I’m not like a poker player. I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
TORI AMOS

Cards Eye Player Table
There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
TORI AMOS

Phenomenal Pressure Vintage
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
TORI AMOS

Explore Names Touching
My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
TORI AMOS

Ability Church Father
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.
TORI AMOS

Guy Jesus Years
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Christianity Looks Myth
A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
TORI AMOS

Music Play Song
I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
TORI AMOS

Daughter Nursing Whale
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.
TORI AMOS

Coffee Discipline Zombie
There’s a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
TORI AMOS

Jazz Complicated Looks World
The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
TORI AMOS

Magic Music Naps
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
TORI AMOS

Beer Cob Corn Father

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