Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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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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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Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
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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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Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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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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So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
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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.
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I’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s.
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Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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Pretty is never beautiful.
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Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
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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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