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My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.

Tori Amos

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks
I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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Coming Girl Out Winter
You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Justify Off Okay Pissed
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
I’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.
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Emotional Moving Player
You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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Justify Pissed Off
I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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Caterers Cooks Husband
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
You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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Loses Mind Path
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
Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
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Able Healing Sitting
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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Explore Names Touching
When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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Ask Life People Pushing
My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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Favorite Loud Turns
The last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
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Girl Survivor Want
Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
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Coming Euphoria Forty

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