Tori Amos Quotes

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.

There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said 'Tori, you've made it. You're nothing until you've been bootlegged.'

I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s.

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.

Carbon made only wants to be unmade.

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.

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

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.

Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

If you're a lame brain, then you're a lame brain. I can't help that.

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

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

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

A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.

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.

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 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.

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.

I don't see music as working.

An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.

I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.

I just hand shoes on the wall. They're architecture you know.

Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It's the perfect job.

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

I found the secret to life: I'm ok when everything is not ok.

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

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.

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

And my Saab is so great I'm gonna marry it.

Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.

There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.

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

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

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

My childhood was extreme.

Is your place in heaven worth giving up these kisses

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.

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

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

Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.

I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over.

...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.

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.

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

I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.

God sometimes you just don't come through, Do you need a woman to look after you?

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

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

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