Tori Amos Quotes - Page 10

If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.

I believe in eating. I think women especially have this fear of eating, and I think there is a whole euphoric plane you can rise to when you have a good meal. You sit down and with every bite you honestly just say thank you.

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

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

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

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.

If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.

The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.

I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over.

We all get intimidated by showing ourselves, for whatever reason, we think, If I really show who I am, and someone goes [pfftt] then it's gonna crush me. Well, it's not gonna crush me. It doesn't crush you if somebody does that- somebody will do that. Many times. And once you accept that that's not why you're doing it, you're doing it because that's your form of expression.

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

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

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.

An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.

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

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

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

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

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.

I don't own a computer. I have a nine-foot piano in my home to compose my messages. Why would I want a one-foot computer to do the same thing?

I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was.

I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.

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