Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’
TORI AMOSThere 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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I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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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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When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
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Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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I don’t allow challenges to trip me 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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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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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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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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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 used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn’t get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.
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