Tori Amos Quotes

When they say take from my body, I think I'll take from mine instead. Getting off, getting off while they're all down stairs.

As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.

Muhammad, my friend, I'm getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law, and what about the deal on the flying trapeze?

In my new life, no room for a lost boy.

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor's been.

I'm a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.

Getting people to go above and beyond the call of duty can be achieved but only if you, the artist, are willing to go above and beyond any and all calls of duty yourself.

Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.

He said, first let's just unzip your religion down.

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.

I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.

Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it.

I realized that what was most important to me was following my own path, and not the one laid down for me by others.

I really respect anybody who stands by their truth.

Do we soon forget the things we cannot see?

So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.

And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried?

You don't know the power that you have with that tear in your hand

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.

Boys are cute, but food is cuter

You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist.

My favorite saying is, 'If it's too loud, turn it up.'

I know that mess spelled backwards is ssem and I felt much better armed with that information.

Strange, i thought i knew you well, thought i had read the sky, thought i had seen a change in your eyes.

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

Sometimes I breathe you in and I know you know.

Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand.

Father Lucifer, you never looked so sane.

I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.

My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

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

Even if everything else is downplayed, I'll wear good shoes.

Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.

I'm a grown woman. I've earned my experiences, my scars.

The sun is getting dim, will I pay for who I've been?