If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
TORI AMOSRobert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said ‘no.’ I mean, you just don’t want to marry someone you’ve wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!
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I’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
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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’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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I’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
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If you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
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I 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.
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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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As the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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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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I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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I’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.
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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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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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My ears are huge. If there’s ever a problem with a plane I’m on, they could just put me on the wing and I’ll land the sucker.
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People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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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 guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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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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I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!
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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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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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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Some 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.
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