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You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.

Tori Amos

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Food References Wells
I’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
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Industry Men Music Powerful
Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
TORI AMOS

Follow Heart Room
To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
TORI AMOS

Being Glamour Sparkly
If you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
TORI AMOS

Children Night Thinking
I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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Allow Challenges Trip
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
TORI AMOS

Theme Thinking Variation
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
Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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Antlers People Sheep
I don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
TORI AMOS

Call Shrink Want
Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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Ice Cream Insanity Manson
I want to be an integrated woman.
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Integrated Want Woman
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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Bleeding Knees Trying
Tori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
TORI AMOS

Aunt Niece Years
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
When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
TORI AMOS

Conversation Interviews Sometimes

You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.

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You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.

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