We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
TORI AMOSI’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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An interview will seem very sane to me, and I’ll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
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The 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.
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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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Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
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I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
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I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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I 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.
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Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said ‘no.’ I mean, you just don’t want to marry someone you’ve wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!
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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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Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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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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Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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