Tori Amos Quotes - Page 11

There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.

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.

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

This whole Christian theology thing is that god came down to experience life through his son. Well, how's he experiencing life if he doesn't get laid? Give me a break. And why would he not get laid, as he created the apparatus in the first place?

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 survived this torture which left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through sex. I really do feel as though I was psychologically mutilated that night and now I'm trying to put the pieces back together again. Through love, not hatred. And through my music. My strength has been to open again, to life, and my victory is the fact that, despite it all, I kept alive my vulnerability.

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

I found the secret to life: I'm ok when everything is not ok.

Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14,000 children were sent away from their families in Cuba, some never to reunite again. Pan Am flights took the children to Miami FL, 'Never-Never Land', and the children became known as the 'Peter Pans.' I wrote this song for my daughter, and it is sung for all the daughters and mothers, fathers and brothers who felt this pain of separation all because of governments and their politics.

If you know me so well, tell me which hand that I use.

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.

I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.

It's not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it's okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner.

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

I'm trying not to move, it's just your ghost passing through

Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.

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.

I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s.

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.

There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said 'Tori, you've made it. You're nothing until you've been bootlegged.'

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.

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

My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.