#us

I do what I did as a hobby as a kid, you know, and make a living at it. And I just feel like I'm one of the luckiest guys in the world 'cuz I get paid to make toys and play with them. ↗

— Rick Baker

#did #feel #get #guys #hobby

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical. ↗

— Tori Amos

#driven #form #i #idea #musical

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house. ↗

— Tori Amos

#father #house #minister #music #our

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone. ↗

— Tori Amos

#i #just #living #living room #me

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. ↗

— Tori Amos

#allow #always #brings #cliffs #depend

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career. ↗

— Tori Amos

#assume #business #business people #career #charge

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.' ↗

— Tori Amos

#hear #honey #i #know #like

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself? ↗

— Tori Amos

#people #push #pushing #you #your

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse. ↗

— Tori Amos

#abuse #age #century #discoveries #especially

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#common #happy #little #lumped #minimalism