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Singer-songwriter

Tori Amos is an American singer-songwriter renowned for her distinctive piano-driven sound and introspective lyrics. She has released numerous albums and has won multiple awards, including a Grammy. Her music often delves into themes of personal relationships and emotional vulnerability.

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“I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.”

Ifs Thinking Children

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

Thinking Stills Self Empowered

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“I think there are pieces of me you've never seen.”

Thinking Pieces

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“Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.”

Thinking Needs Art Sometimes Hot Cups Chocolate Hot Chocolate

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“It's not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it's okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Character Stories Certain Doors Fronts Okay Dinner Front Doors Back Doors

Book:Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

Source: Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

“I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.”

Thinking Knows Needs Trying Mean I Can Soul My Soul Nightmare

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“People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.”

People Thinking I Can Rooms Nuts Because I Can

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“My parents think I'm better under pressure.”

Thinking Parent Pressure Under Pressure

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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Children Night Fronts Television Pigs Accessories

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“I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.”

People Thinking Believe Knowing Angel Fairy Faerie Alternate Realities

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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.”

Thinking Knows Way Two Different Approach Wake Up Two Ways Different Approach

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“Neil [Gaiman, creator of the comic Sandman, featuring the Amos-based character Delirium] believes that faeries have gone beyond cool. They've transcended cool. I just think alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries. I'm sure I'll start thinking now about all the people I know who don't believe, that I quite like. We can still go have a pint. Not the Chardonnay, though.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Believe Stills Character Reality Gone Don't Believe Creator Comic Dimensions Faerie Good Writers Delirium Pints Sandman Chardonnay Alternate Realities Gaiman

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“I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs... because they have the most to hide. The guys that are in the most pain are usually the ones with the biggest hearts.”

Thinking Writing Heart Pain Guy Song Stuff Boys Best Love

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“If you don't think, and you have no wit and you have so many hangups that you can't look beyond your cup of coffee then you're never going to understand what I'm really saying. Because you know what? You're going to shut down and close off before you hear me. If I'm threatening you, you're going to see it the way you need to see it so you can dismiss me.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Needs Looks Down And Coffee Wit Cups Threatening Coffee Cup

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“We all get intimidated by showing ourselves, for whatever reason, we think, If I really show who I am, and someone goes [pfftt] then it's gonna crush me. Well, it's not gonna crush me. It doesn't crush you if somebody does that- somebody will do that. Many times. And once you accept that that's not why you're doing it, you're doing it because that's your form of expression.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Doe Reason Shows Form Accepting Expression Who I Am Crush Intimidated

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“I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.”

People Thinking Kind Art Form Exciting Interpretation Covering

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“I believe in eating. I think women especially have this fear of eating, and I think there is a whole euphoric plane you can rise to when you have a good meal. You sit down and with every bite you honestly just say thank you.”

Thinking Believe Whole I Believe Eating Down And I Believe In Honestly Planes Meals Bites Saying Thank You Euphoric Good Meals

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“The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.”

People Thinking Mean Sometimes Stories Asking Confession Asking For Forgiveness

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“I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing.”

Thinking Want Giving Trying Ideas Running Values Passing Passings Sand Grain Accumulation Time Passing Time Passes Sidelines Grains Of Sand

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“It's [a miscarriage] all very thief-in-the-night. No one really knows what to say. You go into the emergency room, you think you're going to be a mum and you walk out empty. It's all neat and tidy, there's this potential being in your life and you're empty - all cleaned up and put back together, but completely shattered.”

Thinking Knows Together Night Walks Rooms Empty Thieves Mum Emergencies Neat Shattered Back Together Tidy Miscarriage Emergency Room Neat And Tidy

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“I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.”

Thinking Men Writing Mother Song My Own Daughter Decided Fascinated

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“I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.”

Thinking Knows Soul Who You Are Monsters Your Soul

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“I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.”

Ifs Thinking Long Enough Happens Together Events Good Marriage

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“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.”

Thinking Done Choices Creating Spending My Time Right Choices

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

People Thinking Needs Accepting Standards

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“I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?”

Thinking Courses Reading Presses Crew

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

Thinking Dangerous Things To Do Theme Variation Dangerous Things

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“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?”

Ifs Thinking Play Mother Games Walks Inspiring Knowing Groups Havens Tea Heels Hung Mothers Day Nurturing High Heels

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“I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts.”

People Thinking Feels Different Ends Choices Deals Grief Journey Weight Disappointment Loved Ones Death Of A Loved One Relationships Ending

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“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.”

Thinking Want Dream Best Things Your Dreams Composer Things In Life Best Things In Life

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“Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what’s difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That’s very tricky.”

People Thinking Want Two Difficult Careers Tricky Limelight

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“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 Thinking Want Two Difficult Creative Doors Fields Equal Developing Competing Limelight

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“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.”

Thinking Made Age Technology Century Figures Discovery Abuse 21st Century

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“Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.”

Thinking Earth Adolescence Heartless

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“I think that people who can't believe in faeries aren't worth knowing. I just think that alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Reality Knowing Fairy Dimensions Faerie Good Writers Alternate Realities

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“When they say take from my body, I think I'll take from mine instead. Getting off, getting off while they're all down stairs.”

Thinking Body Mines Stairs Masturbation

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About the Author

Born: August 22, 1963
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 366

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