Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
TORI AMOSThere’s a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
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Look, I’m standing naked before you; Don’t you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can’t claim innocence.
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Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
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I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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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 wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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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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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.
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I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
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I think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
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If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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I’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s.
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