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.
TORI AMOSI 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’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s.
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I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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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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If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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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 that other people covering my work is really exciting… Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.
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I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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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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I’m very at home working with mythology.
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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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