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" Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field. "
Tori Amos
Color
Bicycle
Sleep
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" It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes. "
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" I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano. "
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Two
First
Up
" If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness. "
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Homosexuality
You
Fear
" I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical. "
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Driven
Idea
Projects
" I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts. "
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Relationship
Death
End
" I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do? "
Tori Amos
Think
Will
You
" My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play. "
Tori Amos
King
Book
Father
" I guess my husband is a muse as well. "
Tori Amos
Husband
Well
Muse
" I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off. "
Tori Amos
Sit
Swing
Today
" There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in. "
Tori Amos
Go
Way
Battle
" Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it. "
Tori Amos
People
Beautiful
Places
" I want to be an integrated woman. "
Tori Amos
Integrated
Woman
Want
" 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.' "
Tori Amos
Know
You
Mom
" I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. "
Tori Amos
Know
Little Things
Taste
" My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me. "
Tori Amos
Father
Me
He
" Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you. "
Tori Amos
Your
Woman
Say
" You don't leave people who can't defend themselves. "
Tori Amos
Who
You
Defend
" So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown. "
Tori Amos
Me
Father
First
" You have to be clear what your message is and what you're doing. I mean, Miley Cyrus is an amazing talent, and sometimes you kind of just want to say, 'We know you're not Hannah Montana anymore. We know that, my dear. My darling. Now, go be great.' "
Tori Amos
Great
Know
Doing
" The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding. "
Tori Amos
Women
Try
Other
" I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less. "
Tori Amos
You
High
Need
" 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 to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin. "
Tori Amos
Too Much
Some People
You
" I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11. "
Tori Amos
Started
Scholarship
Piano
" I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it. "
Tori Amos
I Think
Open
Think
" I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter. "
Tori Amos
Daughter
Something
Whale
" I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes. "
Tori Amos
Control
Company
Over
" There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world. "
Tori Amos
Look
Jazz
Old
" 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
" There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world. "
Tori Amos
Rock
Enough
World
" Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it. "
Tori Amos
Listen
Touch
Sometimes