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" 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. "

Tori Amos

Look

Jazz

Old

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Involved

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

" I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks. "

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

" 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 guess my husband is a muse as well. "

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

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" The pop world has really opened its doors. "

" I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way! "

" I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was. "

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

" My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn. "

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

" Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about. "

" 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. "

" I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less. "

" You have to be clear what your message is and what you're doing. I mean, Miley Cyrus is an amazing talent, and sometimes you kind of just want to say, 'We know you're not Hannah Montana anymore. We know that, my dear. My darling. Now, go be great.' "

" 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

" In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe. "

" 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 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. "