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I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

Tori Amos

I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Change Children Thinking
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
I’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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Dirty Esteem Low Self Sheets
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
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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Grown Women Scar
I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Everything Found Secret
The last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
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Girl Survivor Want
After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That’s when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
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Occur Piano Players Singer
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
The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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Magic Music Naps
I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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Guitar Piano Trying
Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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Inspirational Seats Sky
I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.
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Mean Something Soul Thinking
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 gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
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Happen Music Love Trying Works

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

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