Today I Choose Life. Every Morning When

Today I See Beauty Everywhere I Go, In Every Face I See, In Every Single Soul, And Sometimes Even In Myself.

This Reference To The Scots Side Of Her Ancestry Is The First Of Two Visual Explorations Into Tori Amos's Diverse Cultural Past. As Is The Case For Many Of Us, Tori's Ancestry Is A Mix Of Races And Religions, Philosophies And Professions, Fortunes And Foibles. What To Some May Seem Like A Family Tree Grown Wild And Untamed Is Actually A Mighty Oak That Has Weathered Life's Many Storms And Can Still Put Out A Rare And Beautiful Blossom Like Tori.

I Don't Use 'always Do This,' 'never Say That' And I Never Give Advice Because I'm Not The End-all, Be-all Authority.

Soon I Realized That If Beauty Equalled Forgiveness, I Was Never Going To Be Forgiven.

It Is The Free Spirited Men And Women That We Most Admire And Often Envy - Those Individuals Who Dare To Be Themselves.