I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
TORI AMOSTori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
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The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.
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I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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The word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
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There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Pretty is never beautiful.
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An interview will seem very sane to me, and I’ll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
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I like involved projects.
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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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The 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.
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Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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After 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.
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I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said ‘Tori, you’ve made it. You’re nothing until you’ve been bootlegged.’
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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 have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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In real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango
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I’m very at home working with mythology.
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I 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?
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Anyone who doesn’t belive in Faeries, isn’t worth knowing.
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Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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