I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you’re not hiding anymore. It’s really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.
TORI AMOSThere’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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I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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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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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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I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
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To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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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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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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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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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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People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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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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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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