Tori Amos

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Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.
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I like involved projects.
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I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.
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My childhood was extreme.
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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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A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.
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I like cosy, intimate houses.
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I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.
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You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.
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I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.
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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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I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.
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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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I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.
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I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.
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After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.
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This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.
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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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When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'
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If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.
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I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.
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I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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The pop world has really opened its doors.
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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.
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I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.
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I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.
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When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
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I don't kid around.
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I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.
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You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.
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There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.
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I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.
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When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.
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There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.
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I want to be an integrated woman.
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My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.
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Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.
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I don't see music as working.
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I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.
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I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded.
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You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.
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