Tori Amos Quotes

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• Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.
• So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar…
• The pop world has really opened its doors.
• The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.
• There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.
• There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
• There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
• This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.
• To me glamour isn't about being sparkly.
• 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…
• Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
• When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
• When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.
• 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,…
• The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that…
• After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the…
• For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it…
• Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds…
• Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
• In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave…

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