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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.

Tori Amos

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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Giving Pioneers Taught
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
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
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 think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Change Children Thinking
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
I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!
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Drunk Moisture Water Way
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
If you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
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Children Night Thinking
Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
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Coming Euphoria Forty
Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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Ice Cream Insanity Manson
I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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Husband Muse Well
If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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Play Song Writing
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
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
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells
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
We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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Clarity Country Grounded People
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.
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Coffee Discipline Zombie
I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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Coming Girl Out Winter
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Christianity Looks Myth
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.
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Beer Cob Corn Father
and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
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Make Tree Way
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.
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Jazz Complicated Looks World
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

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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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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