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If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning.

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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
Mermaids
Mermaid
Drowning
Sing
Come

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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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Somebody will come backstage and go, 'You saved me.' And I will have to say, 'Stop right there. You saved yourself.'
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There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.
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An ounce of breast milk is even more potent than the finest tequila.
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My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.
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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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We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.
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I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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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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And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.
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I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.
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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off.
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I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating.
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A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.
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It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to ... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.
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Your apocalypse was fab.
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Let's be honest. You let yourself be pulled in because it felt good to be wanted, needed. But then it went too far, as projected images always do. If it's not a real image, but one that has been projected on to you, then you can keep up the masquerade for only so long before the mask cracks and the paint on the mask peels away.
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The pop world has really opened its doors.
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