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I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn’t get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.

Tori Amos

A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, ‘Sometimes I just breathe you in.’
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Important Music Sometimes
I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn’t get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.
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Guy Jesus Years
I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Change Children Thinking
Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said ‘no.’ I mean, you just don’t want to marry someone you’ve wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!
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Fart Mean Thirteen Want
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
If you can’t create physical life, you find a life force. If that’s in music, that’s in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
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Hands Moving Sorrow
There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music… because I don’t trust humanity that much, and I don’t know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
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Humanity Song Trust
My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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Favorite Loud Turns
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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Theme Thinking Variation
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
Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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Choices Different Growth
There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
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Listening Routine Way
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’
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Backstage Saved Stop

I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn’t get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.

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I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn’t get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.

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