My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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.
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I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
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You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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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 see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
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Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music… because I don’t trust humanity that much, and I don’t know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
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I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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