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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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" There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s. "

Tori Amos

Pressure

Industry

Women

" It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes. "

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

" Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration. "

" I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. "

" I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more. "

Tori Amos

Got

" I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano. "

Tori Amos

Two

First

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

" You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily. "

" Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs. "

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

" A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now. "

" To me glamour isn't about being sparkly. "

Tori Amos

Being

Glamour

" 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. "

" People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career. "

" 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. "

" As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration. "

" The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding. "

" My parents think I'm better under pressure. "

" 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. "

Tori Amos

Years

Push

" Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it. "

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

" My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights. "

" The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down. "

Tori Amos

Feeling

Upside Down

" I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked. "

" 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. "

" I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating. "