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" I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store. "
Tori Amos
Classic
Mother
Love
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" I have built my world through Native American mythology. "
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" When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs. "
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" I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty. "
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" 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. "
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Aunt
" 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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Industry
Women
" I get tired of wearing the same thing all the time too. "
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Same Thing
Tired
Wearing
" 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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Filter
Time
Good
" I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me. "
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Me
" When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth. "
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Look
" 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. "
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Technology
Out
Age
" People listen to music the way they want to listen to music. "
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Way
Want
Listen
" As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going. "
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Life
Choices
Going
" 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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Tea
Mother
Good
" There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach. "
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Saying
Know
You
" The pop world has really opened its doors. "
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Doors
Really
Pop
" I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter. "
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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. "
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You
Older Women
See
" It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes. "
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Fun
Before
Crew
" For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun. "
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Fun
Sometimes
Most
" 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.' "
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Great
Know
Doing
" I don't see music as working. "
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Working
Music
See
" 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. "
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Listen
Touch
Sometimes
" 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. "
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Look
Jazz
Old
" I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something. "
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Feel
Going
I Feel
" I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it. "
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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. "
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You
Husband
Key
" To me glamour isn't about being sparkly. "
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Being
Me
Glamour
" Even if everything else is downplayed, I'll wear good shoes. "
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Everything
Wear
Shoes
" I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving. "
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Close
Loving
Strict
" 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 the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for. "
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People
Religion
Me