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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 don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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Allow Challenges Trip
I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?
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Crew Reading Thinking
Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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Crazy Friendship Maybe Understood
I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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Dirty Hands Worker
After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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Around Business Made Realizing
Pretty is never beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Pretty
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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Daughter Nursing Whale
Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
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Energy Focus Results
Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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Choices Different Growth
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
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.
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Different Thinking Two
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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Explore Names Touching
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
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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Beautiful Boys Christian

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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