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.
TORI AMOSYou have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
More Tori Amos Quotes
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A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Over the last few hours I’ve allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won’t be afraid of that feeling anymore.
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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 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 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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Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.
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I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
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I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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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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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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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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Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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