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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

Tori Amos

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother
Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Art Media Pain
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
There’s a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
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Jazz Complicated Looks World
You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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Justify Pissed Off
I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
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Believe Dream Nightmare
I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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Daughter Nursing Whale
I can’t believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that’s what it takes to sail you home.
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Believe Flying Home
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells
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
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
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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Art Books Hearing Things
If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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Brain Helping Lame
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
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

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