To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
TORI AMOSTo me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
TORI AMOSI collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
TORI AMOSI think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
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 AMOSThere are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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 don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
TORI AMOSI’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
TORI AMOSI have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
TORI AMOSPretty is never beautiful.
TORI AMOSStandin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
TORI AMOSThere’s a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
TORI AMOSThe romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.
TORI AMOSIn real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango
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 AMOSI’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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