If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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.
More Tori Amos Quotes
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Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
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The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.
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You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Don’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.
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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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Nothing’s gonna stop me from floating
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There’s a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
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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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Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.
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