I think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
TORI AMOSI became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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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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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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When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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If you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
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Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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Pretty is never beautiful.
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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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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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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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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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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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Take 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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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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I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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