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Tori Amos

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
The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.
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Art Believe Confused Source
You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.
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Healing Lying People
Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
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Arizona Honesty Song
In real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango
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Play Real Sex
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
Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Art Media Pain
Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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Crazy Friendship Maybe Understood
I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Change Children Thinking
The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.
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Choices Growing Keys Up
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
If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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Brain Helping Lame
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells
I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
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Monsters Soul Thinking
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
I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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Honest Myself Weird

You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.

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