When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
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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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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Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
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I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
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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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You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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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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You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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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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Healing 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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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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The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, ‘Sometimes I just breathe you in.’
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I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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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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Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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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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