A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
TORI AMOSFor 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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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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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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Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
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So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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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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I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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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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I 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.
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To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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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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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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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
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There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music… because I don’t trust humanity that much, and I don’t know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
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