Tori Amos Quotes - Page 5

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

Being able to hear an opinion. And then how to apply that opinion is something I am learning and working with every day. What can be tricky is how to differentiate a good suggestion that you should apply to your work [from] someone's personal taste at their opinionated best.

Strange, i thought i knew you well, thought i had read the sky, thought i had seen a change in your eyes.

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.

I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

I've always seen the songs as having a consciousness. Since I was two-and-a-half they would come to me from nowhere. I never thought that I was conjuring them by myself, and I was always grateful they would come and visit... They've always been very much alive. They don't have a physical body like we do but there seems to be an awareness.

Sometimes I breathe you in and I know you know.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

Even if everything else is downplayed, I'll wear good shoes.

I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.

My parents think I'm better under pressure.

Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand.

Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends.

I'm a grown woman. I've earned my experiences, my scars.

Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.

In real life I'm bone dry and when I play I'm a mango and in sex I'm starving to be a dripping mango

You don't have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

If you jump, you best jump far.

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.

The sun is getting dim, will I pay for who I've been?