The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, ‘Sometimes I just breathe you in.’
TORI AMOSI don’t know what a shrink would call me. I don’t want to know.
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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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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.
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I’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
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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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I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
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I want to be an integrated woman.
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Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
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If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
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I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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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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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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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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