Tori Amos Quotes (39 Quotes)


    For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

    You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.

    The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

    Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.

    I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs.... because they have the most to hide. The guys that are in the most pain are usually the ones with the biggest hearts.


    Give me peace, love, peace, love, give me peace, love, and a hard cock

    Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

    I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

    In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

    I have my own parties. They involve being barefoot with a piece of fried chicken and margarita in each hand.

    Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

    You can't control your popularity I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. If I was potato chips, I could go a lot more places, but I'm not.

    Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

    I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

    I grew up in dirt-poor hillbilly country. We lived this dry-below-the-waist kind of scene. If you were a sensual woman you were in league with that which is un-Christlike. Where I come from, a cockroach is a roach, and a cockerel is a rooster because they can't bring themselves to say cock.

    If mankind recognizes that war is impossible...that all national rivalries are foolish...if they get together any kind of an extension of detente... then we may pull out of it all the better for it.

    She's been everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own.

    Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

    Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

    Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

    Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

    The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved, ... I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.

    Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.

    Years go by will I still be waiting for somebody else to understand... sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here, silent all these years...

    When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people

    If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.

    There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

    You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

    I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

    Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends. No, they felt igno

    She's been everyone else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own.

    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.

    I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

    Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

    What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.

    Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

    People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.

    I'm a daughter of a minister and I love chasing the dark. That which is hidden. I like licking it like ice cream

    I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.


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