I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
TORI AMOSI 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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Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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I don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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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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Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
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Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
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Don’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.
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Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Anyone who doesn’t belive in Faeries, isn’t worth knowing.
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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.
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I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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There’s a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
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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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Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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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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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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