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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

My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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Favorite Loud Turns
The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.
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Choices Growing Keys Up
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
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
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
Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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Follow Heart Room
Pretty is never beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Pretty
I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
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Long Thinking Together
I can’t believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that’s what it takes to sail you home.
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Believe Flying Home
I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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Husband Muse Well
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
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.’
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Home Plant Video
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
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
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
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Christianity Looks Myth

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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