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Tori Amos

Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.
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Coffee Discipline Zombie
It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.
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Dragon Go Journey Letting
Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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Mistress Trying Wife
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
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Conversation Interviews Sometimes
The word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
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Mean People Thinking
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Drowning Mermaid
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
You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Justify Off Okay Pissed
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
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
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
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
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
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Locks People Sacred

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