I’m very at home working with mythology.
TORI AMOSI’m very at home working with mythology.
TORI AMOSI 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.
TORI AMOSHave a seat, while I take to the sky.
TORI AMOSYou have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
TORI AMOSI think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.
TORI AMOSI 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.
TORI AMOSI’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
TORI AMOSMy 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.
TORI AMOSI don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
TORI AMOSSome people say, I’d give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn’t. I didn’t enjoy being 30.
TORI AMOSI wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
TORI AMOSI think that other people covering my work is really exciting… Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.
TORI AMOSI 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.
TORI AMOSIf I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
TORI AMOSSometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
TORI AMOSI’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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