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You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something to them.

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Tori Amos
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 22
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Harpsichordist
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Singer-Songwriter
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North Carolina
Myra Ellen Amos
Ari Tomos
Ellen Amos
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When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.
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Never was a cornflake girl Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.
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You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.
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I want to be an integrated woman.
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You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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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.
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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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Boys are cute, but food is cuter
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We can all choose to become our potential, not just talk about it or dream about it. But daily, make a shift whereby we begin living and being our potential. With each day, that potential can expand because we are open to learning something every day.
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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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Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.
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The way I see it, the men that I'm with, whoever they are, it's like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can't accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.
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I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy
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There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
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So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.
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My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter.
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