Tori Amos Quotes

Tori Amos is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five, the youngest person ever to have been admitted. She was expelled at the age of 11 for what Rolling Stone described as "musical insubordination". Amos was the lead singer of the short-lived 1980s pop group Y Kant Tori Read before achieving her breakthrough as a solo artist in the early 1990s. Her songs focus on a broad range of topics, including sexuality, feminism, politics and religion.

Her charting singles include "Crucify", "Silent All These Years", "God", "Cornflake Girl", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Professional Widow", "Spark", "1000 Oceans", "Flavor" and "A Sorta Fairytale", her most commercially successful single in the U.S. to date. Amos has received five MTV VMA nominations, eight Grammy Award nominations, and won an Echo Klassik award for her Night of Hunters classical crossover album. She is listed on VH1's 1999 "100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll" at #71. Wikipedia

✵ 22. August 1963

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Famous Tori Amos Quotes

“So you can make me cum; that doesn't make you Jesus.”

"Precious Things".
Songs

“Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.”

Source: Tori Amos: From the Choirgirl Hotel

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

Hello Magazine Interview 2005

“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.”

Source: Death: The High Cost of Living Collected

“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'.”

“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 Quotes about girls

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

Source: Under the Pink

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

“What girls do to each other is beyond description. No Chinese torture comes close.”

Source: Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

“So you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts.
What's so amazing about really deep thoughts?
Boy, you'd best pray that I bleed real soon --
How's that thought for you?”

"Silent All These Years".
Songs

“Just having thoughts of Marianne, quickest girl in the frying pan.”

"Marianne".
Songs

“I've got a cat named Easter; he says, 'Will you ever learn?
You're just an empty cage, girl, if you kill the bird.”

"Crucify".
Songs

Tori Amos Quotes about thinking

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

“I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul. Dive deep into your soul and explore it. I don’t want to renounce my dark side. The truth has always held an enormous interest for me.”

“And I started to think about this story that was taking over my car at that moment. "Jamaica Inn" walked into my Saab and she said, "You might not like my story because i'm not gonna tell you how it ends yet, and you need to travel it with me.”

The Beekeeper DVD

“Dark Energy. It can be found in the observable Universe. Found in ratios of 75% more than any other substance. Dark Energy. It can be found in religious extremists, in cheerleaders. To come to the conclusion that Dark signifies mean and malevolent would define 75% of the Universe as an evil force. Alternatively, to think that some cheerleaders don't have razors in their snatch is to be foolishly unarmed.”

American Doll Posse, biography by Pip

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

"Tear In Your Hand".
Songs

“If I saw someone destroy a piano I'd fuckin' kill 'em. Wouldn't think twice. [It's] Just defending your best friend!”

French television interview, 1992

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“Babooshka's just one of those song's you just can't get out of your head, can you?”

The Kate Bush Story (2014)
Context: Babooshka's just one of those song's you just can't get out of your head, can you? You know, how she just takes a word, and you start seeing images and pictures. To a word that maybe you haven't used … it's "Babooshka" and she's turned that into an emotion, that's just how she's able to use a combination of a word and a combination of a melody and the rhythm of that, and it creates a new language.

“I remember, I had to pull over, and listen to it, because I'd never heard anything like it.”

On "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)".
The Kate Bush Story (2014)
Context: I just remember pulling aside, I was driving, and I heard it on the radio, in the states — and she didn't really get played a lot in the states, until that song — that really got played — a lot. I remember, I had to pull over, and listen to it, because I'd never heard anything like it.

“She's choosing to transcend that. And that's a very powerful thing to do.”

The Kate Bush Story (2014)
Context: The intention is to tell a story, to create a sonic world for us, a sonic painting, for us to walk into, without having to see her. She's transcending that. She's choosing to transcend that. And that's a very powerful thing to do.

Tori Amos Quotes

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

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

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

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

“The truth lies in between the 1st and the 40th drink”

Source: To Venus and Back

“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.”

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

“Sometimes I breathe you in and I know you know.”

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

“Get off the cross, we need the wood.”

Source: Tori Amos: "American Doll Posse"

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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 book Piece by Piece

Source: Piece by Piece

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

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

"God".
Songs
Source: A Tori Amos Collection: Tales of a Librarian

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

“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.”

"1000 Oceans".
Songs

“Men have periods, too… they just don´t bleed.”

Tori Amos[citation needed]

“Nothing's gonna stop me from floating.”

"Father Lucifer".
Songs

“…the most influential journeys I have had have been with Ayahuasca, the vine from the Amazon, the combination of that and mushrooms. They give me the trots and such! It's very much a medicine woman, medicine man's journey drug, where you go inside. It's not a social thing. It's an internal experience. I experiment with things that are usually an internal experience, because that's just what excites me. And yes, it does sometimes give me visions. But my intention when I am doing it is very different than recreational. I don't do it recreationally. I do it to go do inner work, and I'm very clear before I do it what I'm searching for. That way, there's no abuse suffered and I don't rely on it. It's just one more tool that I use sometimes.”

Interview, 9/11/94, for Internet by Michael Pearce

“And I fear my fear is greater than my faith”

Suede.
Songs

“A man bites into a dry peach and says "This peach is not good;" the peach replies "It is not my fault that you don't know the proper use for a dry peach."”

A quote from the special inclusions in the sheet music book for her album "Under the Pink".
Songs

“You could taste heaven perfectly.”

"A Sorta Fairytale".
Songs

“Got enough guilt to start my own religion.”

"Crucify".
Songs

“So she prays for a prankster and lust in the marriage bed
And he waits till she can give
And he waits and he waits.”

Lust, a song on a couple's healing after trauma.
Songs

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

"Little Earthquakes".
Songs

“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.”

From her book Piece by Piece.

“I got a Saab Convertible.”

Interview, Bang Magazine, December 2003.

“Say a word to the hangman for me, me and my baby.”

"Little Amsterdam.
Songs

“I found the secret to life; I'm okay when everything is not okay”

"Upside Down".
Songs

“Driving in my Saab, on my way to Ireland.”

Ireland.
Songs

“I have been surprised, excited and pleasantly shocked by these comics that are extensions of the songs that I have loved and therefore welcome these amazing stories of pictures and words because they are uncompromisingly inspiring. It shows you thought is a powerful, formidable essence and can have a breathtaking domino effect.”

On Comic Book Tattoo, http://www.toriamos.com/main_comic.asp

“And I rode along side
Till you lost me there
In the open road
And I rode along side
Till the honey spread
Itself so thin
For me to break your bread
For me to take your word
I had to steal it.”

"A Sorta Fairytale".
Songs

“Years go by
Will I still be waiting
For somebody else to understand
Years go by
If I'm stripped of my beauty
And the orange clouds
Raining in head
Years go by
Will I choke on my tears
Till finally there is nothing left
One more casualty
You know we're too easy Easy Easy”

"Silent All These Years".
Songs

“I have got my rape hat on, honey, but I always could accessorize.”

"Talula".
Songs

“An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.”

"Purple People (Christmas in Space)".
Songs

“Just what God needs: one more victim.
Why do we crucify ourselves?”

"Crucify".
Songs

“Yeah, there was a period in the late '80s where I was working with different shaman. Myself and a friend, Beene, would take ayahuasca - but it wouldn't be in the liquid form, it would be a freeze-dried pill - and mushrooms. Some of those trips were eighteen hours long and I'll never forget, once I ended up sitting by the bush trying to ask the flowers why they didn't like me. It's like, Why can't I be your friend? I was crawling out of my skin at that time. In my twenties I was really… I was just losing my mind.”

Q - May 1998.

“You thought that you were the bomb, yes well so did I.”

"Spark".
Songs

“Look, I'm standing naked before you;
Don't you want more than my sex?
I can scream as loud as your last one,
But I can't claim innocence.”

"Leather".
Songs

“If you know me so well, then tell me which hand I use.”

"Yes, Anastasia".
Songs

“Is it sweet, your sting?”

"Sweet the Sting".
Songs

“So if I die today, I'll be the happy phantom,
And I'll go chasing the nuns out in the yard,
…And the atrocities of school I can forgive:
The happy phantom has no right to bitch.”

"Happy Phantom".
Songs

“I love my Saab.”

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