If you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
TORI AMOSIf you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
TORI AMOSAnyone who doesn’t belive in Faeries, isn’t worth knowing.
TORI AMOSI’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
TORI AMOSAt 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
TORI AMOSIf you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
TORI AMOSTake 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.
TORI AMOSAfter 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.
TORI AMOSMany people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
TORI AMOSA lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
TORI AMOSI think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
TORI AMOSMy father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
TORI AMOSThere 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.
TORI AMOSThe music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
TORI AMOSIf you can’t create physical life, you find a life force. If that’s in music, that’s in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
TORI AMOSHealing 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’.
TORI AMOSMost people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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