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 AMOSI’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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I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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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 gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
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I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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Pretty is never beautiful.
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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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I don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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If you can’t create physical life, you find a life force. If that’s in music, that’s in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
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We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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If you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
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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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So, you can make me come, that doesn’t make you Jesus.
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Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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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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When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
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