Tori Amos Quotes - Page 13

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'.

I'm the queen of the nerds.

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

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

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

In my new life, no room for a lost boy.

I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!

I have built my world through Native American mythology.

I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded.

I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

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

There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off.

I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.

Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It's about discipline. You have to push yourself.

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

I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.

She's been everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own.

These precious things, let them bleed.

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.

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

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