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" At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me. "
Tori Amos
Whose
Go
Knew
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" I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it. "
Tori Amos
I Think
Open
Think
" Romance is important to me, and to have a romance with your husband takes a bit of doing. The key is to make sure your partner misses you. That means you have to take yourself away. "
Tori Amos
You
Husband
Key
" My childhood was extreme. "
Tori Amos
Childhood
Extreme
" I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols. "
Tori Amos
Car
Singing
Mom
" I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical. "
Tori Amos
Similar
Characters
Driven
" I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more. "
Tori Amos
Got
More
Like
" You don't leave people who can't defend themselves. "
Tori Amos
Who
You
Defend
" I'm very at home working with mythology. "
Tori Amos
Mythology
Home
Working
" To me glamour isn't about being sparkly. "
Tori Amos
Being
Me
Glamour
" For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun. "
Tori Amos
Fun
Sometimes
Most
" I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself. "
Tori Amos
Myself
Different
Exploring
" 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. "
Tori Amos
Find
Compassion
People
" Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs. "
Tori Amos
Myself
Always
Jump
" 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 or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the back-story. "
Tori Amos
Feel
Song
You
" I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving. "
Tori Amos
Close
Loving
Strict
" 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 passage of time is occurring. "
Tori Amos
You
Piano
Realize
" I get tired of wearing the same thing all the time too. "
Tori Amos
Same Thing
Tired
Wearing
" I guess my husband is a muse as well. "
Tori Amos
Husband
Well
Muse
" I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it. "
Tori Amos
Dive
You
Know
" This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me. "
Tori Amos
Impact
Music
Me
" Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained. "
Tori Amos
Now
Right
Need
" 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. "
Tori Amos
Technology
Out
Age
" 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. "
Tori Amos
Me
Legal
Aunt
" Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about. "
Tori Amos
Time
Change
Same
" I've worked with many powerful men in the music industry. "
Tori Amos
Music
Men
Powerful
" People listen to music the way they want to listen to music. "
Tori Amos
Way
Want
Listen
" I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter. "
Tori Amos
Daughter
Something
Whale
" 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. "
Tori Amos
You
Older Women
See
" A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration. "
Tori Amos
You
Inspiration
Need
" I like cosy, intimate houses. "
Tori Amos
Like
Houses
Intimate