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I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.

Tori Amos

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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Art Books Hearing Things
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
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
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
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
I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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Grown Women Scar
I want to be an integrated woman.
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Integrated Want Woman
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
Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Art Media Pain
I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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Honest Myself Weird
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
Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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Crossword Religion Religious
I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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Aboriginal Art Country Native People
As the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
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Choices Night Sun
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
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 found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.

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