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
TORI AMOSIn 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
TORI AMOSThe 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.’
TORI AMOSYou don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
TORI AMOSI’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
TORI AMOSYou decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
TORI AMOSVulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
TORI AMOSI wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
TORI AMOSBeing in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
TORI AMOSWhen I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
TORI AMOSOver the last few hours I’ve allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won’t be afraid of that feeling anymore.
TORI AMOSI wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
TORI AMOSFor 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 AMOSDon’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.
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 AMOSThe 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.
TORI AMOSWell, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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