WOODY ALLEN and TORI AMOS

WOODY ALLEN

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.

You're betting everything on physics and pussy.

So we're alone in the universe. You gonna blame that on me too?

Life is like Vegas. You're up, you're down, and in the end, the house always wins. But it doesn't mean you didn't have fun.

I don't wanna live in a city where the only cultural advantage is that you can make a right turn on a red light.

TORI AMOS

I mean as far as the structure of a tune, there are two things that have to be operating at all times. One is complete instinctive writing, and then the other is the sculptor. Now the sculptor is the one that goes, Ok, so we kinda have a verse here, but this line has to be gutted because it isn't saying what we need it to say. And then another part of you goes, yeah but this came to me, and I was having an experience, and I was eating a banana when I was walking down this dirt road, and it just really, really worked for me. And you're going, yeah, but honey, it sucks.

When I am in geometrically sound shoes, I feel like I'm part of the physics chatter.

I have to be willing to open the closet and be willing to bring out all my little party hats.

Oh, I laugh my head off when some woman calls me a shivering waif in the forest. I'm like OK, sister, you get raped and get ready to get cut up, and then write about it and sing it. And you have the balls to call me a waif shivering in the forest. That to me is a lizard running around with a pussy.

My God, you guys, she's 21. Let her fit into tight pants. Let her explore and grow. I did. What is this you're not allowed to explore? Look at me now. I'm breast feeding pigs.

When you come to my shows, you think you're walking into this really yummy lunch, and little do you know you ARE lunch.

When things get really empty for me, empty in my outer life, in my inner life, the music world, the songs come across galaxies to find me.

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