When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
TORI AMOSThe 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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If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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Some people say, I’d give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn’t. I didn’t enjoy being 30.
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I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?
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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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I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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There’s a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
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I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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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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I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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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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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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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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