My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
TORI AMOSI guess my husband is a muse as well.
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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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I 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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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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There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
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You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’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 guess my husband is a muse as well.
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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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When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you’re not hiding anymore. It’s really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.
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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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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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