Tori Amos Quotes

That's the thing about letting old lovers go. You don't stop loving some of them. There are a couple you love no less than you ever did. Not to mention namesbut I'm still in love with a couple. You're not going to try and make it work again, but if they needed you, you'd drop everything.

I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

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

I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.

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 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.

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.

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

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

My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.

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

Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing.

I believe in eating. I think women especially have this fear of eating, and I think there is a whole euphoric plane you can rise to when you have a good meal. You sit down and with every bite you honestly just say thank you.

I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.

I really really love Christ, but I'm not a Christian.

Boy, you better pray that I bleed real soon.

I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.

Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new ideas because you don't want to take somebody else's ideas. You need to find your own. So if you go to different artistic mediums, whether it's dance or it's visual arts or films or books, stories, sometimes it gets you hearing things, hearing progressions that you wouldn't come up with if you were just listening to other music because you don't want to copy progressions you've just heard.

My grandmother really liked virgins. There's nothing wrong with virgins, there's a time and a place for that. I had other things on my mind... like Robert Plant.

Sometimes I breathe you in and I know you know.

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

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

I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!

I've been raising up my hands drive another nail in just what God needs one more victim

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

When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.

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

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.

My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter.

I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded.

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.

Every place you land in life has a reason and a lesson.

We can all choose to become our potential, not just talk about it or dream about it. But daily, make a shift whereby we begin living and being our potential. With each day, that potential can expand because we are open to learning something every day.

It's not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it's okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner.

I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off.

You have to be clear what your message is and what you're doing. I mean, Miley Cyrus is an amazing talent, and sometimes you kind of just want to say, 'We know you're not Hannah Montana anymore. We know that, my dear. My darling. Now, go be great.'

There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.

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.

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.

Is your place in heaven worth giving up these kisses

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?

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

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

You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.

What I want is not to want what isn't mine

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

When one doesn’t want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren’t competing against each other. I think when you are in the same field, it’s difficult to leave it outside and not compete. Then when the doors are closed, that pervades everything.

If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.