Tori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
TORI AMOSTori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
TORI AMOSIf you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
TORI AMOSBeing in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
TORI AMOSMy favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
TORI AMOSI’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
TORI AMOSThe violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
TORI AMOSThere are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
TORI AMOSThere are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
TORI AMOSI’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
TORI AMOSThe 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.
TORI AMOSIf you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
TORI AMOSMy 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.
TORI AMOSI think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
TORI AMOSYou decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
TORI AMOSWell, I have a lot of food references in my work.
TORI AMOSMany people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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