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.
TORI AMOSThere 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.
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There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
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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.
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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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There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
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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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You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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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 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.
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A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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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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I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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I’m very at home working with mythology.
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