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" I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty. "
Tori Amos
Hands
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" I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store. "
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" 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. "
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" When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone. "
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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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" I don't kid around. "
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" Well, I have a lot of food references in my work. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power. "
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" Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It's about discipline. You have to push yourself. "
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" I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way! "
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" I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical. "
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" 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. "
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" When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great. "
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Game
You
" I guess my husband is a muse as well. "
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" 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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" Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light. "
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" 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. "
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