You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
TORI AMOSThe 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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There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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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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I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?
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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
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To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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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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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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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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Robert 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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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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If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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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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Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
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Take 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.
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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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I want to be an integrated woman.
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Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
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You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.
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My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
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