Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
TORI AMOSBeing 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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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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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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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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I think that other people covering my work is really exciting… Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.
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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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There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
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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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Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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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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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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There’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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I can’t believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that’s what it takes to sail you home.
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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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