If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
TORI AMOSYou don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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My 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.
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Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
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The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
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I 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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Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
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I can’t believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that’s what it takes to sail you home.
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Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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I’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.
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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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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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After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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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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