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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.

Tori Amos

I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
TORI AMOS

Christ Really Christian Love
Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
TORI AMOS

Inspirational Seats Sky
There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
TORI AMOS

Listening Routine Way
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
TORI AMOS

People Privilege Stories
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
TORI AMOS

Bleeding Knees Trying
There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
TORI AMOS

Different Thinking Two
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.
TORI AMOS

Happen Music Love Trying Works
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
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
I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
TORI AMOS

Caterers Cooks Husband
I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
TORI AMOS

Daughter Nursing Whale
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
TORI AMOS

Dance Happiness Really True
The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.
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Away Going Ice Cream Men
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.
TORI AMOS

Hands Moving Sorrow
I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
TORI AMOS

Art Books Hearing Things
If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
TORI AMOS

Brain Helping Lame

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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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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