Tori Amos Quotes
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There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.
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Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they're beautiful.
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I'm standing naked before you. Don't you want more than sex?
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It's [a miscarriage] all very thief-in-the-night. No one really knows what to say. You go into the emergency room, you think you're going to be a mum and you walk out empty. It's all neat and tidy, there's this potential being in your life and you're empty - all cleaned up and put back together, but completely shattered.
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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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I'm a daughter of a minister and I love chasing the Dark. That which is hidden. I like licking it like ice cream
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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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Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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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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I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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I don't know what a shrink would call me. I don't want to know.
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I like involved projects.
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I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.
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Sometimes I breathe you in and I know you know.
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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'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?
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If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?
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What do you plan to do with all your freedom?
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Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song.
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There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.
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A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.
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It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.
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The only way out is to go so far in.
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There's a sea secret in me / it's plain to see it is rising / but I must be flowing liquid diamonds / calling for my soul / at the corners of the world
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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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Inspiration quite frequently arrives as a surprise. The key is being open to it.
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I don't allow challenges to trip me up.
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Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
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