I guess my husband is a muse as well.
TORI AMOSI guess my husband is a muse as well.
TORI AMOSI think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
TORI AMOSPress the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
TORI AMOSIf I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
TORI AMOSWhen interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
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 AMOSPeople are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
TORI AMOSIf 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 AMOSParenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
TORI AMOSA lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
TORI AMOSI 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.
TORI AMOSIf you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
TORI AMOSI’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
TORI AMOSWhen you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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.
TORI AMOSPretty is never beautiful.
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