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 AMOSHealing 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 AMOSThese precious things, let them bleed.
TORI AMOSIf you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
TORI AMOSThe romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.
TORI AMOSParenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
TORI AMOSWhere we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
TORI AMOSI’m not like a poker player. I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
TORI AMOSThere are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
TORI AMOSIn real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango
TORI AMOSAs the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
TORI AMOSMe and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
TORI AMOSIf you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
TORI AMOSI don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
TORI AMOSI think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
TORI AMOSTo me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
TORI AMOSSome 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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