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.
TORI AMOSSometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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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 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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In real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango
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Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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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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Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
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I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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The word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
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The last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
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A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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I think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
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