I’m very at home working with mythology.
TORI AMOSTake a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.
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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
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I can’t believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that’s what it takes to sail you home.
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and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
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The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, ‘Sometimes I just breathe you in.’
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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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There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
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I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn’t get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.
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Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’
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The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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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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Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
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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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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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My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
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