got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
TORI AMOSgot a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
TORI AMOSIt’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.
TORI AMOSThe fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
TORI AMOSDance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
TORI AMOSLook, 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.
TORI AMOSAfter a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That’s when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
TORI AMOSMy ears are huge. If there’s ever a problem with a plane I’m on, they could just put me on the wing and I’ll land the sucker.
TORI AMOSYou don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
TORI AMOSIs there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
TORI AMOSI think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
TORI AMOSThe key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.
TORI AMOSThere is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
TORI AMOSMy father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
TORI AMOSI have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?
TORI AMOSThere 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.
TORI AMOSSo, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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