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I don't allow challenges to trip me up.

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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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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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I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.
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My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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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'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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Sometimes I breathe you in and I know you know.
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Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
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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 are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
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Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.
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For many years, I shut down that place inside myself that needed to rage, cry, ask questions and basically just express herself. I made a conscious choice when I put (the song) 'Me and a Gun' on the record not to stay a victim anymore.
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