I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
TORI AMOSI think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
TORI AMOSYou know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.
TORI AMOSThere are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music… because I don’t trust humanity that much, and I don’t know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
TORI AMOSParenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
TORI AMOSThere 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.’
TORI AMOSgot a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
TORI AMOSMy father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
TORI AMOSI guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
TORI AMOSThe key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.
TORI AMOSWe all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
TORI AMOSThe word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
TORI AMOSThere 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.
TORI AMOSMy favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
TORI AMOSThere are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
TORI AMOSIt’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.
TORI AMOSOver the last few hours I’ve allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won’t be afraid of that feeling anymore.
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