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" 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
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" Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred. "
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Many
Part
Sacred
" My favorite saying is, 'If it's too loud, turn it up.' "
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Saying
Loud
Favorite
" People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career. "
Tori Amos
Career
Business
My Own
" 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 don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object. "
Tori Amos
Women
Find
Girl
" The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down. "
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Feeling
Upside Down
Up
" If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone. "
Tori Amos
Alone
Living
Only
" Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed. "
Tori Amos
Enjoyed
Fleeting
Life
" I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer. "
Tori Amos
Time
Best
Dreams
" Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all. "
Tori Amos
Powerful
Woman
You
" 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
" 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
" 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
" There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring. "
Tori Amos
Life
Know
Gun
" I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger. "
Tori Amos
Industry
Finding
Something
" 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
" A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now. "
Tori Amos
Lot
You
Were
" 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? "
Tori Amos
Tea
Mother
Good
" Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually. "
Tori Amos
Records
Still
Take
" Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what's difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That's very tricky. "
Tori Amos
You
Say
Want
" I don't kid around. "
Tori Amos
Kid
Around
" I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. "
Tori Amos
Know
Little Things
Taste
" I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege. "
Tori Amos
Telling
People
Stories
" I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks. "
Tori Amos
Cook
Husband
Cooks
" I have built my world through Native American mythology. "
Tori Amos
Mythology
Through
World
" There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world. "
Tori Amos
Rock
Enough
World
" 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
" I get tired of wearing the same thing all the time too. "
Tori Amos
Same Thing
Tired
Wearing
" I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something. "
Tori Amos
Feel
Going
I Feel
" To me glamour isn't about being sparkly. "
Tori Amos
Being
Me
Glamour