Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
TORI AMOSTo me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
More Tori Amos Quotes
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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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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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If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, ‘Sometimes I just breathe you in.’
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Tori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
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An 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.
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Anyone who doesn’t belive in Faeries, isn’t worth knowing.
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I’m not like a poker player. I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
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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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The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.
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Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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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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If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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