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Tori Amos on trauma, Trump and Neil Gaiman: ‘It’s a heartbreaking grief’
The musician is back with a live album and as passionate as ever. She discusses fans, failure, muses, misogyny – and why she won’t tolerate bad behaviour
When I arrive at her place – a detached but unassuming house upfront, and a warren of more recently built workshops at the back, filled with beautiful pianos, a massive mixing desk and the harpsichord she played on her album Boys for Pele – we have lunch with her husband and sound engineer, Mark Hawley. Photograph: EXImages/AlamyWhen she finally got back on the road in 2022, after five years – her longest break from touring since Little Earthquakes – that connection with her audience resumed, and is powerfully captured on her new album, Diving Deep Live. At five, Amos began attending the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University – one of the youngest student ever to be accepted – studying alongside teenagers, until she grew frustrated with the way she was being taught, losing her place at 11.
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