Tori Amos > Quotes

“Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.”
― Tori Amos, Tori Amos: From the Choirgirl Hotel

“So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.”
― Tori Amos

“If they keep crashing stuff into the moon, the moon's gonna get pissed off, and the tides'll change, and all the women'll start PMS-ing together. Then you guys are going to fucking regret it.”
― Tori Amos

“I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.”
― Tori Amos

“If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.”
― Tori Amos

“On bad days I talk to Death constantly, not about suicide because honestly that's not dramatic enough. Most of us love the stage and suicide is definitely your last performance and being addicted to the stage, suicide was never an option - plus people get to look you over and stare at your fatty bits and you can't cross your legs to give that flattering thigh angle and that's depressing. So we talk. She says things no one else seems to come up with, like let's have a hotdog and then it's like nothing's impossible.

She told me once there is a part of her in everyone, though Neil believes I'm more Delirium than Tori, and Death taught me to accept that, you know, wear your butterflies with pride. And when I do accept that, I know Death is somewhere inside of me. She was the kind of girl all the girls wanted to be, I believe, because of her acceptance of "what is." She keeps reminding me there is change in the "what is" but change cannot be made till you accept the "what is.”
― Tori Amos, Death: The High Cost of Living

“I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare”
― Tori Amos

“The truth lies in between the 1st and the 40th drink”
― Tori Amos, Tori Amos: To Venus & Back

“I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.”
― Tori Amos

“Get off the cross, we need the wood.”
― Tori Amos, Tori Amos: American Doll Posse

“The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.”
― Tori Amos

“Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.”
― Tori Amos

“When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly.
”
― Tori Amos

“What girls do to each other is beyond description. No Chinese torture comes close.”
― Tori Amos, Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

“Sometimes I breathe you in and I know you know.”
― Tori Amos

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

“Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much. But you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.”
― Tori Amos

“Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don`t fit into boxes.”
― Tori Amos

“I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?”
― Tori Amos

“I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.
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― Tori Amos

“I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.”
― Tori Amos

“Never was a cornflake girl;
Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.”
― Tori Amos, Tori Amos: Under the Pink

“Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?”
― Tori Amos

“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.”
― Tori Amos

“From in the shadow she calls. And in the shadow she finds a way, finds a way. And in the shadow she crawls, clutching her faded photograph. My image under her thumb. Yes with a message for my heart. She’s been everybody else’s girl maybe one day she’ll be her own.”
― Tori Amos

“The violence between women is unbelievable...women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.”
― Tori Amos

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

“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.”
― Tori Amos, Piece by Piece

“God sometimes you just don't come through,
Do you need a woman to look after you?”
― Tori Amos, A Tori Amos Collection: Tales of a Librarian

“Haze all clouding up in my mind in the daze of the why it could've never been.”
― Tori Amos

“I salute to you Commander
and I sneeze
'Cause I have Now
an Allergy
To your policies it seems

Where have we gone wrong America?
Mr. Lincoln we can't seem
to find you anywhere out of the millions
From the deserts
To the mountains
Over prairies
To the shores
Is this just the Madness of King George
Yo George
Is this just the Madness of King George
Yo George
Well you have the whole Nation
on all fours. ”
― Tori Amos

“He said, first let's just unzip your religion down.”
― Tori Amos, Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk

“Strange, i thought i knew you well, thought i had read the sky, thought i had seen a change in your eyes.”
― Tori Amos

“This is very simple in the world of chicks: some are hoochies, some are not, and some should never try to be. It's no different from the idea of sports. Now, I can go on my little rowing machine for four times a week, twenty-two minutes a time, and I can feel as if I flirt with the sporting world. Similar to the idea that a woman can put on something cuter for her man, for those moments, and flirt with garments that a hoochie woman might be pushing. But never for one moment should you get confused. My little rowing machine and I cannot consider ourselves athletes. Wearing the same garment does not a hoochie woman make. So if you are a true hoochie woman, may garments below the navel always be in your future. If you are not, then please don't throw away your cotton zippy jacket.”
― Tori Amos, Piece by Piece

“And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.”
― Tori Amos

“and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree”
― Tori Amos, Tori Amos: Boys for Pele

“Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.”
― Tori Amos

“Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.”
― Tori Amos

“....danced in graveyards with vampires til dawn"-lyrics by Tori Amos-Little Earthquakes”
― Tori Amos

“I'm the queen of the nerds.”
― Tori Amos

“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.”
― Tori Amos, Death: The High Cost of Living

“If all I can say is I'm not in this swamp, I'm not in this swamp then there is not a rope in front of me and there is not an alligator behind me and there is not a girl sitting at the edge eating a hot dog and if I believe that, then dying would be the only answer because then Death couldn't come and say Peachy to me anymore and after all she has a brother who believes in hope.”
― Tori Amos, Death: The High Cost of Living

“Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.
- Tori Amos”
― Tori Amos

“Well I know we're dying
And there's no sign of a parachute
In this chapel
Little chapel of love
Can't we get a little grace
And some elegance
No we scream in cathedrals
Why can't it be beautiful
Why does there gotta be a sacrifice
Gotta be a sacrifice”
― Tori Amos

“this House is like Russia
with eyes cold and grey
you got me moving in a circle
I dyed my hair red today
I just want a little passion
...to hold me in the dark
I know I've got some magic
buried deep in my heart
but my priest says
you ain't savin' no souls
my father says
you ain't makin' any money
my doctor says
you just took it to the limit
and here I stand
with this sword in my hand
you can say it one more time
what you don't like
let me hear it one more time then
have a seat while I
take to the sky”
― Tori Amos, Piece by Piece