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So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name

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Tori Amos
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 22
Composer
Harpsichordist
Musician
Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer-Songwriter
Newton
North Carolina
Myra Ellen Amos
Ari Tomos
Ellen Amos
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Freedom

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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.
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The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don't get confused.
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I can't believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that's what it takes to sail you home.
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And my Saab is so great I'm gonna marry it.
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There's a sea secret in me / it's plain to see it is rising / but I must be flowing liquid diamonds / calling for my soul / at the corners of the world
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I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.
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My grandmother really liked virgins. There's nothing wrong with virgins, there's a time and a place for that. I had other things on my mind... like Robert Plant.
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Pretty is never beautiful.
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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.
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The sun is getting dim, will I pay for who I've been?
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A lot of songs are derivative of each other.
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I'm a grown woman. I've earned my experiences, my scars.
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The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in.'
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I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare.
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and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
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This whole Christian theology thing is that god came down to experience life through his son. Well, how's he experiencing life if he doesn't get laid? Give me a break. And why would he not get laid, as he created the apparatus in the first place?
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So then I though I'd make some plans, but Fire thought she'd really rather be Water instead.
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Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.
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On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.
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What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.
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