There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
TORI AMOSI guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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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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An 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.
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I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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Nothing’s gonna stop me from floating
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Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
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So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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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’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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A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
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There’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.
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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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