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My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.

Tori Amos

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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Changing Your Life Littles
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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Theme Thinking Variation
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Dance Happiness Really True
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Christianity Looks Myth
There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
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Phenomenal Pressure Vintage
I think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
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Country Dream People Thinking
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
There’s a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
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Jazz Complicated Looks World
I don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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Call Shrink Want
I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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Husband Muse Well
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 was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
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Daughter Mother Song
I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
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Art Books Hearing Things
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 don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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Caterers Cooks Husband
The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, ‘Sometimes I just breathe you in.’
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Important Music Sometimes

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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