Top 369 Quotes & Sayings by Tori Amos

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Tori Amos.

Last updated on November 22, 2024.

Tori Amos is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five, the youngest person ever to have been admitted. She had to leave at the age of eleven when her scholarship was discontinued for what Rolling Stone described as "musical insubordination". Amos was the lead singer of the short-lived 1980s pop group Y Kant Tori Read before achieving her breakthrough as a solo artist in the early 1990s. Her songs focus on a broad range of topics, including sexuality, feminism, politics, and religion.

American - Musician | Born: August 22, 1963

Source: Wikipedia

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

Tori Amos

I'm very at home working with mythology.

Tori Amos

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

Tori Amos

My favorite saying is, 'If it's too loud, turn it up.'

Tori Amos

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

Tori Amos

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

Tori Amos

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

Tori Amos

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

Tori Amos

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

Tori Amos

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

Tori Amos

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

Tori Amos

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

Tori Amos

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

Tori Amos

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

Tori Amos

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

Tori Amos

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.

Tori Amos

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.

Tori Amos

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

Tori Amos

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

Tori Amos

If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?

Tori Amos

I like involved projects.

Tori Amos

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.

Tori Amos

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

Tori Amos

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

Tori Amos

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

Tori Amos

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

Tori Amos

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

Tori Amos

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

Tori Amos

I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts.

Tori Amos

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

Tori Amos

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.

Tori Amos

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.

Tori Amos

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?

Tori Amos

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

Tori Amos

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

Tori Amos

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

Tori Amos

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.

Tori Amos

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

Tori Amos

So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.

Tori Amos

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

Tori Amos

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

Tori Amos

I want to be an integrated woman.

Tori Amos

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

Tori Amos

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Tori Amos

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

Tori Amos

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.

Tori Amos

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

Tori Amos

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

Tori Amos

My childhood was extreme.

Tori Amos

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

Tori Amos

There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.

Tori Amos

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

Tori Amos

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

Tori Amos

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.

Tori Amos

When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great.

Tori Amos

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.

Tori Amos

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

Tori Amos

Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.

Tori Amos

Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.

Tori Amos

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.

Tori Amos