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Tori Amos

I think that other people covering my work is really exciting… Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.
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Art People Thinking
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
I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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Honest Myself Weird
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks
So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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Come Jesus Make Music
I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!
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Drunk Moisture Water Way
For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.
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Emotional Song Together
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
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
If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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Play Song Writing
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
Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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Art Chocolate Thinking
Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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Choices Different Growth
Anyone who doesn’t belive in Faeries, isn’t worth knowing.
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Believe Knowing
Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
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might Song Sound

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