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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

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
Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
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Energy Focus Results
We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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Clarity Country Grounded People
Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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Dark Knows Moon
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
Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’
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Backstage Saved Stop
I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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Christ Really Christian Love
The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
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Church Daughter People Play Separation
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.
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Guy Jesus Years
Look, I’m standing naked before you; Don’t you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can’t claim innocence.
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Looks Naked Sex
I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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Honest Myself Weird
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
Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
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Country People Sometimes Want
There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
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Listening Routine Way
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 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

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.

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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.

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