Tori Amos Quotes & Sayings

Anyone who doesn't belive in Faeries, isn't worth knowing. — Tori Amos

When I went on this trip I had a sexual/spiritual experience with a creature named Lucifer. — Tori Amos

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table. — Tori Amos

Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up. — Tori Amos

Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they're beautiful. — Tori Amos

Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people. — Tori Amos

If they keep crashing stuff into the moon, the moon's gonna get pissed off, and the tides'll change, and all the women'll start PMS-ing together. Then you guys are going to fucking regret it. — Tori Amos

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

I guess my husband is a muse as well. — Tori Amos

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11. — Tori Amos

There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring. — Tori Amos

The truth lies in between the 1st and the 40th drink — Tori Amos

A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming. — Tori Amos

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object. — Tori Amos

Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results. — Tori Amos

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

There are quite a few very funny people in my life. You know those people who don't mean to be funny, they just come out with these zingers that just make you howl with laughter. Usually you find these people in the road crew. A good crew is a key to a healthy funny bone. — Tori Amos

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. — Tori Amos

Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on. — Tori Amos

I'm too young for a man, but I'm too old for a boy. So, can't we just pretend, that I'm older than I really am, but then, only little girls pretend. — Tori Amos

You know when people smile too much? It's painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I'm trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm. — Tori Amos

Get off the cross, we need the wood. — Tori Amos

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer. — Tori Amos

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. — Tori Amos

I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn't get on with my own life because I was so busy with his. — Tori Amos

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world. — Tori Amos

I'm the queen of the nerds. — Tori Amos

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration. — Tori Amos

It's hard to hide a hundred girls in your hair. — Tori Amos

I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.
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I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes. — Tori Amos

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness. — Tori Amos

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

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. — Tori Amos

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

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols. — Tori Amos

Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained. — Tori Amos

I hurt myself today to see if I could feel. I hurt myself, you said to try to make him feel. So I hurt myself again to see if he'd see me. I hurt myself again and no, he never could see me. — Tori Amos

Neil says "Hi" by the way... — Tori Amos

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring. — Tori Amos

I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it. — Tori Amos

They say you were something in those formative years. — Tori Amos

The violence between women is unbelievable ... women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding. — Tori Amos

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing. — Tori Amos

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

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

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

Father Lucifer, you never looked so sane. — Tori Amos

I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating. — Tori Amos

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself. — Tori Amos

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

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30. — Tori Amos

On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream. — Tori Amos

What do you plan to do with all your freedom? — Tori Amos

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed. — Tori Amos

Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14,000 children were sent away from their families in Cuba, some never to reunite again. Pan Am flights took the children to Miami FL, 'Never-Never Land', and the children became known as the 'Peter Pans.' I wrote this song for my daughter, and it is sung for all the daughters and mothers, fathers and brothers who felt this pain of separation all because of governments and their politics. — Tori Amos

I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things. — Tori Amos

There's a sea secret in me / it's plain to see it is rising / but I must be flowing liquid diamonds / calling for my soul / at the corners of the world — Tori Amos

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk. — Tori Amos

There certainly are situations where I feel not empowered or uninspired. Particularly when the person's agenda is to intimidate through abusing their position or their authority. When I am present and in a nonreactive state, then I can become like snake and slide through their "intimidation net" back into the creative plane. When I am in a reactive state, I usually regret responding, because usually all that happens is that the intimidator feels righteously vindicated. — Tori Amos

I don't see music as working. — Tori Amos

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

I like involved projects. — Tori Amos

The Apocalypse is not something out there that will eradicate everything on planet Earth. That would be far too simple. The Apocalypse is in each and every one of us. It takes courage to fight the beast. — Tori Amos

Men have periods too, they just don't bleed. — Tori Amos

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

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen. — Tori Amos

She told me once there is a part of her in everyone, though Neil believes I'm more Delirium than Tori, and Death taught me to accept that, you know, wear your butterflies with pride. — Tori Amos

Boys are cute, but food is cuter — Tori Amos

In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you'll create something magical that might be the best thing you've ever accomplished — Tori Amos

What I want is not to want what isn't mine — Tori Amos

I believe in peace, Bitch. — Tori Amos

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 Amos

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. — Tori Amos

I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over ... — Tori Amos

Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what's difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That's very tricky. — Tori Amos

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

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me. — Tori Amos

Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy — Tori Amos

If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them? — Tori Amos

An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly. — Tori Amos

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to ... ride and don't let go and you will be fine. — Tori Amos

So then I though I'd make some plans, but Fire thought she'd really rather be Water instead ... — Tori Amos

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often. — Tori Amos

I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap ... — Tori Amos

For years I've gathered various books, sources. When I was little it might have been Tolkien, and so I would have just four books around me. I couldn't afford many books at the time, so I'd have what I had. Maybe I'd tear out ten or twenty pictures from magazines because I couldn't afford art books. I would check out library books and try to keep them as long as I could, but I couldn't jot my notes in them. For any particular song, I can't tell you the books that were on the floor, the photographs on the floor. I don't let anybody keep a record of that. Those are the secret ingredients. — Tori Amos

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. — Tori Amos

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

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating. — Tori Amos

I can't have discussions about it anymore, I just can't. When someone asks me if I've found Jesus, I say, 'Yeah, I saw him at a Nirvana concert a couple of years ago.' It's like, Jesus has got things to do, he's got a ten o'clock. He's not going to fix things for me, I have to fix things for myself, so I try and have a sense of humor about it and nobody finds my humor very amusing. We've just got to lighten up on the savior bit, folks. You know, get off the cross, we need the wood. — Tori Amos

People are the most fascinating mysteries I've ever read. — Tori Amos

I like cosy, intimate houses. — Tori Amos

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

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

I have built my world through Native American mythology. — Tori Amos

I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men. — Tori Amos

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me. — Tori Amos

I want to be an integrated woman. — Tori Amos

Romance is important to me, and to have a romance with your husband takes a bit of doing. The key is to make sure your partner misses you. That means you have to take yourself away. — Tori Amos

Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It's about discipline. You have to push yourself. — Tori Amos