I’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.
TORI AMOSPress the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
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The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.
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I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!
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Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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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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If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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I want to be an integrated woman.
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A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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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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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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There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music… because I don’t trust humanity that much, and I don’t know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
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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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In real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango
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You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.
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