Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
TORI AMOSMusically, 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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If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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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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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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In real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango
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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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The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.
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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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If you can’t create physical life, you find a life force. If that’s in music, that’s in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
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You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.
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I don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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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.
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When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
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To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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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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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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Anyone who doesn’t belive in Faeries, isn’t worth knowing.
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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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If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
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I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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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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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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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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Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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