I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
TORI AMOSSo close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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I’m very at home working with mythology.
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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 am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you’re not hiding anymore. It’s really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.
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I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.
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If 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.
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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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If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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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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I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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Healing 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’.
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A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
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You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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These precious things, let them bleed.
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