I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
TORI AMOSAn 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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When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
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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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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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If you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
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I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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If you can’t create physical life, you find a life force. If that’s in music, that’s in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
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Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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In real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango
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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
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I 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.
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I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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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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The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.
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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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