I’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
TORI AMOSConfucius does his crossword with a pen.
More Tori Amos Quotes
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For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.
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My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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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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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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A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
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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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Some people say, I’d give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn’t. I didn’t enjoy being 30.
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I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.
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The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
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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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