If you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
TORI AMOSIf you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
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 AMOSAt 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
TORI AMOSI think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
TORI AMOSBeing in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
TORI AMOSLook, I’m standing naked before you; Don’t you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can’t claim innocence.
TORI AMOSI can’t believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that’s what it takes to sail you home.
TORI AMOSSometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
TORI AMOSAfter a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
TORI AMOSThe last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
TORI AMOSI’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
TORI AMOSI’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
TORI AMOSSomebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’
TORI AMOSDon’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.
TORI AMOSMe and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
TORI AMOSYou know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.
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