In 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 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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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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Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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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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So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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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’.
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I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Pretty is never beautiful.
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When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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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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I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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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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You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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