Top 369 Quotes & Sayings by Tori Amos - Page 4

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

Do we soon forget the things we cannot see?

There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.

Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs... because they have the most to hide. The guys that are in the most pain are usually the ones with the biggest hearts.

You don't know the power that you have with that tear in your hand

You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist.

I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you're not hiding anymore. It's really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.

To heal the wound, you have to go into the dark night of the soul.

You don't have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name

The last thing I want to be known as is 'The Girl Who Got Raped'. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.

Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said 'no.' I mean, you just don't want to marry someone you've wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

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

What do you plan to do with all your freedom?

I'm not somebody that gets played a lot at parties and weddings. I mean, you know, you mention my name and you get an eye roll, until, of course, you're jumping off a bridge.

I do believe that we all are, fundamentally, divided creatures. Emotions split from intellect, spirit from flesh and far too often sexuality is disconnected from what we feel, and are, as total human beings. But how, for example, can anyone have an understanding of the virgin if they don't also have an understanding of the prostitute, the saint and sinner in one body?

I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.

I've got enough guilt to start my own religion.

Sometimes I breathe you in and I know you know.

An ounce of breast milk is even more potent than the finest tequila.

I really respect anybody who stands by their truth.

The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in.'

I've never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I'm an emotional player. I don't really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It's totally reliable and it's alive. I can hear what it's saying.

That's the thing about letting old lovers go. You don't stop loving some of them. There are a couple you love no less than you ever did. Not to mention namesbut I'm still in love with a couple. You're not going to try and make it work again, but if they needed you, you'd drop everything.

And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried?

Somebody will come backstage and go, 'You saved me.' And I will have to say, 'Stop right there. You saved yourself.'

Boys are cute, but food is cuter

I know that mess spelled backwards is ssem and I felt much better armed with that information.

When they say take from my body, I think I'll take from mine instead. Getting off, getting off while they're all down stairs.

Muhammad, my friend, I'm getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law, and what about the deal on the flying trapeze?

Let's be honest. You let yourself be pulled in because it felt good to be wanted, needed. But then it went too far, as projected images always do. If it's not a real image, but one that has been projected on to you, then you can keep up the masquerade for only so long before the mask cracks and the paint on the mask peels away.

I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?

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

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

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

Sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here, silent all these years

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?

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

If you jump, you best jump far.

My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.

I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.

Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.

I'm a daughter of a minister and I love chasing the Dark. That which is hidden. I like licking it like ice cream

Have a seat, while I take to the sky.

The truth lies in between the 1st and the 40th drink

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.

Father Lucifer, you never looked so sane.

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

I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating.

Every place you land in life has a reason and a lesson.

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

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.

To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.