I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
TORI AMOSIf you can’t create physical life, you find a life force. If that’s in music, that’s in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
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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 know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.
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Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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I want to be an integrated woman.
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If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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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’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
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I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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