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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.

Tori Amos

Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
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Phenomenal Pressure Vintage
I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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Honest Myself Weird
The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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Magic Music Naps
After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That’s when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
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Occur Piano Players Singer
I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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Guitar Piano Trying
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
Over the last few hours I’ve allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won’t be afraid of that feeling anymore.
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Feelings Last Way
I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
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Long Thinking Together
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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Fascinating Mystery People
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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Changing Your Life Littles
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
Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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Crazy Friendship Maybe Understood
Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Jesus Needs Recovery
There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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Hard Matter Strange
Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
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Able Healing Sitting
My ears are huge. If there’s ever a problem with a plane I’m on, they could just put me on the wing and I’ll land the sucker.
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Country Ears Land People Wings
I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Change Children Thinking
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
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
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
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
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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Bleeding Knees Trying
I’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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Dirty Esteem Low Self Sheets

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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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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