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’.
TORI AMOSand 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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I’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
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After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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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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I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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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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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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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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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 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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Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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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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