I’m very at home working with mythology.
TORI AMOSI gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
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A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
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The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.
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There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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Anyone who doesn’t belive in Faeries, isn’t worth knowing.
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I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
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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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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’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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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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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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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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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
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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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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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