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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.

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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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Carpet
Magic
Music
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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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Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up.
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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 used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn't get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.
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I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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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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I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors … and it's the shade that defines the light.
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I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
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Even if everything else is downplayed, I'll wear good shoes.
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So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.
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...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.
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Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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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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I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.
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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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I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.
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I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.
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People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.
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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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There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.
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