When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
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 AMOSI’m very at home working with mythology.
TORI AMOSHealing 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’.
TORI AMOSA guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
TORI AMOSAn interview will seem very sane to me, and I’ll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
TORI AMOSYou don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
TORI AMOSMe and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
TORI AMOSAfter a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That’s when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
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 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 AMOSTell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
TORI AMOSI see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
TORI AMOSI think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
TORI AMOSMy 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.
TORI AMOSRobert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said ‘no.’ I mean, you just don’t want to marry someone you’ve wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!
TORI AMOSIf you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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