You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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.
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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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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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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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Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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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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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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My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
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I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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I want to be an integrated woman.
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In 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
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To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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These precious things, let them bleed.
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Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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