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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

Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
TORI AMOS

Precious Time Wrong
I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
TORI AMOS

Coming Girl Out Winter
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.
TORI AMOS

Emotional Song Together
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.’
TORI AMOS

Home Plant Video
Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
TORI AMOS

Country People Sometimes Want
I’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
TORI AMOS

Able People Tomatoes
I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
TORI AMOS

Honest Myself Weird
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
TORI AMOS

Dance Happiness Really True
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.
TORI AMOS

Church Daughter People Play Separation
Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
TORI AMOS

Coming Euphoria Forty
Look, I’m standing naked before you; Don’t you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can’t claim innocence.
TORI AMOS

Looks Naked Sex
Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
TORI AMOS

Energy Focus Results
I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
TORI AMOS

Aboriginal Art Country Native People
Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
TORI AMOS

Jobs Perfect Work
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
TORI AMOS

Locks People Sacred
Get off the cross, we need the wood.
TORI AMOS

Jesus Needs Recovery

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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