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Tori Amos

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Children Mom Mother
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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Aboriginal Art Country Native People
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks
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
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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Ability Church Father
If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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Brain Helping Lame
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 have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!
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Drunk Moisture Water Way
I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Everything Found Secret
I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Angel Believe Thinking
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.
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Emotional Song Together
There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music… because I don’t trust humanity that much, and I don’t know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
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Humanity Song Trust

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