Tori Amos Quotes

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

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.

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

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.

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

We can all choose to become our potential, not just talk about it or dream about it. But daily, make a shift whereby we begin living and being our potential. With each day, that potential can expand because we are open to learning something every day.

In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you'll create something magical that might be the best thing you've ever accomplished

It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer.

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.

You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something to them.

The only way out is to go so far in.

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

Somebody will come backstage and go, 'You saved me.' And I will have to say, 'Stop right there. You saved yourself.'

What do you plan to do with all your freedom?

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

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

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

If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning.

I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing.

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.

Sometimes you are forced to defend your beliefs. Sometimes you are forced to look at relationships that aren't positive anymore. There are times when I have had to make peace with the fact that I am at war. And sometimes you have to fight those who do not want love to conquer all.

I'm not somebody that gets played a lot at parties and weddings. I mean, you know, you mention my name and you get an eye roll, until, of course, you're jumping off a bridge.

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.

You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.