There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music… because I don’t trust humanity that much, and I don’t know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
TORI AMOSI think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.
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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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I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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These precious things, let them bleed.
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A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
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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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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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I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!
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Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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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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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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I want to be an integrated woman.
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I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
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