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.
TORI AMOSYou know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.
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I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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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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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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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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Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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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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I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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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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Pretty is never beautiful.
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Some people say, I’d give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn’t. I didn’t enjoy being 30.
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You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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