If 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.
TORI AMOSI’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
More Tori Amos Quotes
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Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
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Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
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I’m not like a poker player. I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
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When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
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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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Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said ‘no.’ I mean, you just don’t want to marry someone you’ve wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!
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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 like involved projects.
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Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
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Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
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I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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