I’m very at home working with mythology.
TORI AMOSTo me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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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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I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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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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A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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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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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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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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My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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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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Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
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Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
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I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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These precious things, let them bleed.
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To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said ‘no.’ I mean, you just don’t want to marry someone you’ve wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!
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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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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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