Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
TORI AMOSLook, 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.
More Tori Amos Quotes
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Some people say, I’d give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn’t. I didn’t enjoy being 30.
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We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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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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and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
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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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There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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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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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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I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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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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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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These precious things, let them bleed.
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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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If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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