I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
TORI AMOSI’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.
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For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.
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Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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Don’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.
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Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
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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’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
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Look, I’m standing naked before you; Don’t you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can’t claim innocence.
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Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
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Anyone who doesn’t belive in Faeries, isn’t worth knowing.
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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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You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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If you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
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I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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I’m very at home working with mythology.
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To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.
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When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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