For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.
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.
More Tori Amos Quotes
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I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’
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I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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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 think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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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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I want to be an integrated woman.
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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 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.
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Nothing’s gonna stop me from floating
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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
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I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!
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There 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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