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 AMOSHealing 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 AMOSStandin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
TORI AMOSThe 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.
TORI AMOSI don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
TORI AMOSPeople are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
TORI AMOSI think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
TORI AMOSI found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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!
TORI AMOSI’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
TORI AMOSI’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
TORI AMOSYou know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.
TORI AMOSI’m not like a poker player. I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
TORI AMOSTake a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.
TORI AMOSMy father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
TORI AMOSAt 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
TORI AMOSLook, I’m standing naked before you; Don’t you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can’t claim innocence.
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