If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
TORI AMOSPeople are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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My ears are huge. If there’s ever a problem with a plane I’m on, they could just put me on the wing and I’ll land the sucker.
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I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.
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I don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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I’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.
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Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
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Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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I’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
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I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?
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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 guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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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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Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
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We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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