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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.

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
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
To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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Being Glamour Sparkly
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
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Father Kings Rights
I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Home Mythology Working
Anyone who doesn’t belive in Faeries, isn’t worth knowing.
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Believe Knowing
I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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Guitar Piano Trying
got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
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Boys Harm Self Suicide
I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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Husband Muse Well
I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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Beautiful Boys Christian
I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Everything Found Secret
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
You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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People Too Much Trying
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
Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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Art Chocolate Thinking
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Feelings Looks Reality
I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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Dirty Hands Worker
and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
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Make Tree Way
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
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
You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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Justify Pissed Off
I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Change Children Thinking
We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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Clarity Country Grounded People
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Father House Rocks
Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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Follow Heart Room
So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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Come Jesus Make Music
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Christianity Looks Myth

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