I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?
TORI AMOSI have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?
TORI AMOSI gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
TORI AMOSPress the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
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 AMOSDance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
TORI AMOSYou don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
TORI AMOSVulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
TORI AMOSAt 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
TORI AMOSI’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
TORI AMOSAn interview will seem very sane to me, and I’ll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
TORI AMOSPeople are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
TORI AMOSMy father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
TORI AMOSSometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
TORI AMOSThe 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.’
TORI AMOSI’m not like a poker player. I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
TORI AMOSAnybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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