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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

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
I’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s.
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Feelings Sexy Wake Up
I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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Ability Church Father
Some people say, I’d give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn’t. I didn’t enjoy being 30.
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Enjoy Giving People
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
The word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
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Mean People Thinking
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’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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Grown Women Scar
I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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Christ Really Christian Love
Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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Follow Heart Room
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Christianity Looks Myth
Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Art Media Pain
I think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
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Country Dream People Thinking
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
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

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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