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" I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical. "
Tori Amos
Driven
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" I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter. "
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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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