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Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.

Tori Amos

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
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
When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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Ask Life People Pushing
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.
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Aunt Niece Years
I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Everything Found Secret
Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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Inspirational Seats Sky
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
I think that other people covering my work is really exciting… Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.
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Art People Thinking
Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Art Media Pain
So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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Come Jesus Make Music
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
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
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
Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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Art Chocolate Thinking
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
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

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.

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