I want to be an integrated woman.
TORI AMOSI want to be an integrated woman.
TORI AMOSSome of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
TORI AMOSIf I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
TORI AMOSYou don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
TORI AMOSYou have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
TORI AMOSI’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s.
TORI AMOSYou know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.
TORI AMOSI’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.
TORI AMOSThere are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music… because I don’t trust humanity that much, and I don’t know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
TORI AMOSParenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
TORI AMOSI like involved projects.
TORI AMOSSo close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
TORI AMOSI am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you’re not hiding anymore. It’s really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.
TORI AMOSSomebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’
TORI AMOSI’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
TORI AMOSI’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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