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" 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

You

Trying

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Involved

" A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh. "

" 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? "

" I don't kid around. "

Tori Amos

Kid

Around

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

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

" I want to be an integrated woman. "

" Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again. "

" 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. "

" 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'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive. "

" I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. "

" I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off. "

" Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30. "

" My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play. "

" 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. "

" I like cosy, intimate houses. "

Tori Amos

Houses

Intimate

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

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

" 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. "

Tori Amos

Find

Interview

" 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. "

" Even if everything else is downplayed, I'll wear good shoes. "

" 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

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

Tori Amos

Being

Glamour

" There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world. "

" 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. "

" Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. "

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

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

" I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger. "