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" It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes. "
Tori Amos
Fun
Before
Crew
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" I guess my husband is a muse as well. "
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Well
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" After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of. "
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Really
Made
Realize
" 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? "
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Think
Will
You
" My favorite saying is, 'If it's too loud, turn it up.' "
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Saying
Loud
Favorite
" You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie. "
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People
Good
Good People
" 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
" When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone. "
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Just
Undone
Start
" 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. "
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Control
Company
Over
" I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger. "
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Industry
Finding
Something
" My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me. "
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Father
Me
He
" 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
" I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil. "
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I Am
Your
Devil
" I want to be an integrated woman. "
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Integrated
Woman
Want
" Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred. "
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Many
Part
Sacred
" I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table. "
Tori Amos
Someone
Eye
Look
" 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. "
Tori Amos
People
Religion
Me
" I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks. "
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Cook
Husband
Cooks
" 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 husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told. "
Tori Amos
Husband
Ask
Way
" Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually. "
Tori Amos
Records
Still
Take
" I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer. "
Tori Amos
Myself
Writer
Really
" I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful. "
Tori Amos
Vice
Young
See
" I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty. "
Tori Amos
Hands
Get
Dirty
" 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
" I get tired of wearing the same thing all the time too. "
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Same Thing
Tired
Wearing
" Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it. "
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Time
You
Wrong
" I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more. "
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Got
More
Like
" Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes. "
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Wonderful
People
Wonderful People
" 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
" There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't. "
Tori Amos
Like
You
Trying