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If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering.

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Tori Amos
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 22
Composer
Harpsichordist
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Newton
North Carolina
Myra Ellen Amos
Ari Tomos
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