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Tori Amos (115)

Birth:	22nd August, 1963
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Harpsichordist, Composer, Director, Lyricist, Pianist, Record Producer, Singer

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• I know I’m an acquired taste – I’m anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

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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.

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

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• When you’re in your 20s, there’s maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you’re not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great.

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• When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

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• When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.

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

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• When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, ‘Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?’ And she would look at me and say, ‘No honey, I don’t know what you’re talking about.’

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• When I play live, it’s a conversation that we’re all having with the song, and the audience… their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

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• When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

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

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• To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.

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• This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

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• There’s a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can’t write. It’s a big business.

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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.

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• 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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• There is an energy that you carry when you’re nurturing another life where you’re protecting first – and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter’s gun, you can be a little more daring.

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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.

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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.

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• 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.

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