My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
TORI AMOSMy father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
TORI AMOSIn real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango
TORI AMOSSo, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
TORI AMOSI’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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 AMOSWell, I have a lot of food references in my work.
TORI AMOSYou don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
TORI AMOSI’m very at home working with mythology.
TORI AMOSI want to be an integrated woman.
TORI AMOSI gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
TORI AMOSI think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
TORI AMOSThe 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.
TORI AMOSAn 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.
TORI AMOSI don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
TORI AMOSThere’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.
TORI AMOSAs the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
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