Tori Amos Quotes

Boys are cute, but food is cuter

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

I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.

Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

Over the last few hours I've allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore.

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe, ... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

You don't have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

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

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.

I have built my world through Native American mythology.

When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.

I wanted to marry Lucifer... I don't consider Lucifer an evil force...I feel his presence with his music. I feel like he comes and sits on my piano.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

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

If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.

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

My childhood was extreme.

People can be quite bullish with their opinions. That does not mean they have their finger on the pulse. It just means they value their own opinion.

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.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

Get off the cross, we need the wood.

Baker, baker, can you explain, if truly his heart was made of icing.

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice.

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.

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

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

To heal the wound, you have to go into the dark night of the soul.

These precious things, let them bleed.

Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.

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

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.

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

When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great.

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

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.

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

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

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

The only way out is to go so far in.

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

If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.

What do you plan to do with all your freedom?