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Tori Amos

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 22, 1963

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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I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

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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.

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

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Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

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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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I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

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If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

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

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After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

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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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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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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.

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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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If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

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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.

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I guess my husband is a muse as well.

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The pop world has really opened its doors.

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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.

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