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When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.

Tori Amos

I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn’t get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.
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Guy Jesus Years
I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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Beautiful Boys Christian
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 see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
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Believe Dream Nightmare
People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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Fascinating Mystery People
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 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
To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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Being Glamour Sparkly
These precious things, let them bleed.
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Philosophy Precious Things
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Christianity Looks Myth
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
In real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango
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Play Real Sex
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Carols Country Hera People
An interview will seem very sane to me, and I’ll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
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Half Laughing Mouths
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
Tori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
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Aunt Niece Years

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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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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