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Tori Amos

Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
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Jobs Perfect Work
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
Over the last few hours I’ve allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won’t be afraid of that feeling anymore.
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Feelings Last Way
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
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Beer Cob Corn Father
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
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
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
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
Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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Precious Time Wrong
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
A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
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Music Play Song
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
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother
I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
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Happen Music Love Trying Works
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
I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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Beautiful Boys Christian

I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.

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