Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
TORI AMOSMy father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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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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I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
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I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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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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There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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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’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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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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I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said ‘no.’ I mean, you just don’t want to marry someone you’ve wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!
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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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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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