I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
TORI AMOSI think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
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You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That’s when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
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I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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Nothing’s gonna stop me from floating
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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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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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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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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 decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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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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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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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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Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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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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You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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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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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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The word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
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To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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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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