My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
TORI AMOSI’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.
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I think that other people covering my work is really exciting… Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.
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Look, 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.
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Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.
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After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.
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I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.
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Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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If 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.
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