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.
TORI AMOSRobert 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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If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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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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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 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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Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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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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I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
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I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That’s when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
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People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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Tori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
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It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.
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Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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An interview will seem very sane to me, and I’ll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
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I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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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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Anyone who doesn’t belive in Faeries, isn’t worth knowing.
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To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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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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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.
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The last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
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