My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
TORI AMOSIf you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
More Tori Amos Quotes
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The 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.
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I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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The 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.
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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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Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
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Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
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Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.
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I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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Tori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
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The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, ‘Sometimes I just breathe you in.’
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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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