I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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.’
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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.
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Tori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
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got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
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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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and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
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Nothing’s gonna stop me from floating
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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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I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
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I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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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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So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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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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Over 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.
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You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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