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.
TORI AMOSMusically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
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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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Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
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When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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I 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.
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Nothing’s gonna stop me from floating
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Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved 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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People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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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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Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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