When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
TORI AMOSIf you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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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 wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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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 want to be an integrated woman.
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The 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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You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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I’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.
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We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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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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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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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.
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Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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