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" 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. "

Tori Amos

Saying

Know

You

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Got

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" 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

" I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer. "

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

" When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone. "

" I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk. "

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

" I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving. "

Tori Amos

Loving

Strict

" 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. "

Tori Amos

Legal

Aunt

" I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter. "

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

" There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in. "

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Way

Battle

" There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world. "

" There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine. "

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Routine

Listening

" The pop world has really opened its doors. "

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

" I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself. "

" An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time. "

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Find

Interview

" Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin. "

" My childhood was extreme. "

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Childhood

Extreme

" Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be. "

Tori Amos

Want

Get