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I guess my husband is a muse as well.

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
If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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Age Crystals Hippie
These precious things, let them bleed.
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Philosophy Precious Things
I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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Caterers Cooks Husband
A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
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Music Play Song
Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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Crazy Friendship Maybe Understood
Pretty is never beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Pretty
I want to be an integrated woman.
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Integrated Want Woman
I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
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Daughter Mother Song
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
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 you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
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
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred
It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.
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Dragon Go Journey Letting

I guess my husband is a muse as well.

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