I can’t believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that’s what it takes to sail you home.
TORI AMOSMy favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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These precious things, let them bleed.
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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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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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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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We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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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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I want to be an integrated woman.
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My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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Look, 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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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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Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said ‘Tori, you’ve made it. You’re nothing until you’ve been bootlegged.’
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If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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