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.
TORI AMOSMy father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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I’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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Tori’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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I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
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I want to be an integrated woman.
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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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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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I’m very at home working with mythology.
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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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It’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.
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I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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