I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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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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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After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That’s when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
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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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I think that other people covering my work is really exciting… Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.
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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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A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
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Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
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I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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I’m not like a poker player. I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
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Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
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There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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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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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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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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Over the last few hours I’ve allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won’t be afraid of that feeling anymore.
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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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These precious things, let them bleed.
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I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.
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