The 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.
TORI AMOSHealing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
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You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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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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Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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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 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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I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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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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There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said ‘Tori, you’ve made it. You’re nothing until you’ve been bootlegged.’
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If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
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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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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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