I’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.
TORI AMOSA 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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I’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
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Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said ‘no.’ I mean, you just don’t want to marry someone you’ve wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!
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I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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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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I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
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I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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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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Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
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I want to be an integrated woman.
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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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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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I’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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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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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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