There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
TORI AMOSI’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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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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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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Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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I 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.
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I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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I think that other people covering my work is really exciting… Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.
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and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
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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’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s.
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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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I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
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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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I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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I’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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Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!
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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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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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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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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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