Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
TORI AMOSIf I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
More Tori Amos Quotes
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Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
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I’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
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Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’
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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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I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.
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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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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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It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to … ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.
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I like involved projects.
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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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I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
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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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