The last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
TORI AMOSThings go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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I think that other people covering my work is really exciting… Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.
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Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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I’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s.
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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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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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Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
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I’m very at home working with mythology.
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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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You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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There’s a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
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Pretty is never beautiful.
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You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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