Pretty is never beautiful.
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 you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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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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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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Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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Don’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.
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I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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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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You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.
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My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
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An interview will seem very sane to me, and I’ll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
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