Tori Amos Quotes

I'm the queen of the nerds.

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

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.

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

People can travel great distances on a computer, so why can't we travel that way emotionally?

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

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

I'm a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody's ready to slit their wrists.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

Never was a cornflake girl; Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.

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.

I'm very at home working with mythology.

I have built my world through Native American mythology.

I don't know what a shrink would call me. I don't want to know.

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've worked with many powerful men in the music industry.

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

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.

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try.

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

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.

I can't believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that's what it takes to sail you home.

I think there are pieces of me you've never seen.

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

I like butter and the people who like butter.

When you value your crew, they look after you.

Not being afraid to make changes is a valuable tool - knowing you can change back.

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

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.

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.

We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.

Not everyone wants you to become your potential, for whatever reason.

Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.

I don't allow challenges to trip me up.

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

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.

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

sleeping beauty/trips me with a frown

she said, these dead petals, honey, brought me here