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" My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter. "

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" 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. "

Tori Amos

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" Well, I have a lot of food references in my work. "

" I'm very at home working with mythology. "

" I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store. "

" I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do. "

" 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? "

" Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun. "

" When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down. "

" I don't kid around. "

Tori Amos

Kid

Around

" People listen to music the way they want to listen to music. "

" You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie. "

" If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night. "

" Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred. "

" 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. "

" My favorite saying is, 'If it's too loud, turn it up.' "

" I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head. "

" I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me. "

Tori Amos

Mom

Child

" When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself? "

" I have built my world through Native American mythology. "

" 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. "

" I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore. "

" When one doesn't want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren't competing against each other. I think when you are in the same field, it's difficult to leave it outside and not compete. Then when the doors are closed; that pervades everything. "

" I want to be an integrated woman. "

" My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me. "

Tori Amos

Father

" I get tired of wearing the same thing all the time too. "