I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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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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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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’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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I don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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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.
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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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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
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I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
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I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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