I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
TORI AMOSSometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
More Tori Amos Quotes
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I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
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I want to be an integrated woman.
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For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.
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A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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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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I’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.
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To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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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.
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