I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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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Some people say, I’d give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn’t. I didn’t enjoy being 30.
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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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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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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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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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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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So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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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 am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you’re not hiding anymore. It’s really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.
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Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
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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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I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn’t get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.
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My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
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I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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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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