The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
TORI AMOSMy 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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Don’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.
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The 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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Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
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Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music… because I don’t trust humanity that much, and I don’t know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
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The last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
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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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I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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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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Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.
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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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