I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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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People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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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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I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn’t get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.
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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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My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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I 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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My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
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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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After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That’s when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
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You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
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My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
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