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.
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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I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
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Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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I’m very at home working with mythology.
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I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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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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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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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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Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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I’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
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I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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