I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
TORI AMOSThere 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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After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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If you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
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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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There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music… because I don’t trust humanity that much, and I don’t know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
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I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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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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Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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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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To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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I can’t believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that’s what it takes to sail you home.
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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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If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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