At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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.
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Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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Musically, 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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People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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I can’t believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that’s what it takes to sail you home.
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I’m very at home working with mythology.
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A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said ‘Tori, you’ve made it. You’re nothing until you’ve been bootlegged.’
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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 don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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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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The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
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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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These precious things, let them bleed.
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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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Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
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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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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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Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
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Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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