Tori Amos Quotes

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.

Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.

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

If you know me so well, tell me which hand that I use.

I get tired of wearing the same thing all the time too.

I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

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

I'm standing naked before you. Don't you want more than sex?

You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

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

To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.

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.

An ounce of breast milk is even more potent than the finest tequila.

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.

We all get intimidated by showing ourselves, for whatever reason, we think, If I really show who I am, and someone goes [pfftt] then it's gonna crush me. Well, it's not gonna crush me. It doesn't crush you if somebody does that- somebody will do that. Many times. And once you accept that that's not why you're doing it, you're doing it because that's your form of expression.

Your apocalypse was fab.

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

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

and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree

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.

Let's be honest. You let yourself be pulled in because it felt good to be wanted, needed. But then it went too far, as projected images always do. If it's not a real image, but one that has been projected on to you, then you can keep up the masquerade for only so long before the mask cracks and the paint on the mask peels away.

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

When you value your crew, they look after you.

Carbon made only wants to be unmade.

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

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

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

If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

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

Haze all clouding up in my mind in the daze of the why it could've never been.

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

When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I've had conversations with journalists that I've never had with anybody else.

Confucius does his crossword with a pen.

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.

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.

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

I think that people who can't believe in faeries aren't worth knowing. I just think that alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries.

Inspiration quite frequently arrives as a surprise. The key is being open to it.

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.

I survived this torture which left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through sex. I really do feel as though I was psychologically mutilated that night and now I'm trying to put the pieces back together again. Through love, not hatred. And through my music. My strength has been to open again, to life, and my victory is the fact that, despite it all, I kept alive my vulnerability.

My parents think I'm better under pressure.

I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you're not hiding anymore. It's really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.

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

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.