My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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.
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The last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
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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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Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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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 don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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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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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’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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You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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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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There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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