When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
TORI AMOSI’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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I’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
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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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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 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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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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To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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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 like involved projects.
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Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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The word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
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My ears are huge. If there’s ever a problem with a plane I’m on, they could just put me on the wing and I’ll land the sucker.
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