Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
TORI AMOSIn 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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The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.
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To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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There 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.
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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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I’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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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 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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If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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I’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.
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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
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The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.
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Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’
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