I’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
TORI AMOSMany people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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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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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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If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, ‘Sometimes I just breathe you in.’
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Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.
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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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I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you’re not hiding anymore. It’s really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.
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People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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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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I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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