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TORI AMOSWhen 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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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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The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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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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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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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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I want to be an integrated woman.
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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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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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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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Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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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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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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Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
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I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
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