I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
TORI AMOSI think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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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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I’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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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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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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The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.
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I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
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As the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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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’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.
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