The last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
TORI AMOSYou know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.
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I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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Pretty is never beautiful.
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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 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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To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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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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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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I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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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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