Tori Amos Quotes - Page 8

My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.

I want to be an integrated woman.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.

I'm too young for a man, but I'm too old for a boy. So, can't we just pretend, that I'm older than I really am, but then, only little girls pretend.

I wanted to marry Lucifer. I feel his presence in my music.

I can't believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that's what it takes to sail you home.

Boy, you better pray that I bleed real soon.

I just hand shoes on the wall. They're architecture you know.

Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It's the perfect job.

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.

I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate.

My childhood was extreme.

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

I've worked with many powerful men in the music industry.

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.

I'm very at home working with mythology.

I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.

I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.

I guess my husband is a muse as well.