Tori Amos Quotes - Page 14

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.

I get tired of wearing the same thing all the time too.

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what’s difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That’s very tricky.

I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to ... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.

Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.

Is your place in heaven worth giving up these kisses

Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song.

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

Your apocalypse was fab.

Confucius does his crossword with a pen.

You're only popular with anorexia.

Baker, baker, can you explain, if truly his heart was made of icing.

I'm standing naked before you. Don't you want more than sex?

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

When you value your crew, they look after you.

We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.

Not being afraid to make changes is a valuable tool - knowing you can change back.

Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing.

Not everyone wants you to become your potential, for whatever reason.

When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.

People can be quite bullish with their opinions. That does not mean they have their finger on the pulse. It just means they value their own opinion.

There are quite a few very funny people in my life. You know those people who don't mean to be funny, they just come out with these zingers that just make you howl with laughter. Usually you find these people in the road crew. A good crew is a key to a healthy funny bone.