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.
TORI AMOSAt 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.
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I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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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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Anyone who doesn’t belive in Faeries, isn’t worth knowing.
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So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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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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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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I’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
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Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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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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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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Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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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 music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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