Top 369 Quotes & Sayings by Tori Amos - Page 6

An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.

I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap.

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

Nothing's gonna stop me from floating

Haze all clouding up in my mind in the daze of the why it could've never been.

Over the last few hours I've allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore.

Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.

On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.

I can't have discussions about it anymore, I just can't. When someone asks me if I've found Jesus, I say, 'Yeah, I saw him at a Nirvana concert a couple of years ago.' It's like, Jesus has got things to do, he's got a ten o'clock. He's not going to fix things for me, I have to fix things for myself, so I try and have a sense of humor about it and nobody finds my humor very amusing. We've just got to lighten up on the savior bit, folks. You know, get off the cross, we need the wood.

He said, first let's just unzip your religion down.

So then I though I'd make some plans, but Fire thought she'd really rather be Water instead.

I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.

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

I salute to you Commander and I sneeze 'Cause I have Now an Allergy To your policies it seems Where have we gone wrong America? Mr. Lincoln we can't seem to find you anywhere out of the millions From the deserts To the mountains Over prairies To the shores Is this just the Madness of King George Yo George Is this just the Madness of King George Yo George Well you have the whole Nation on all fours.

I don't own a computer. I have a nine-foot piano in my home to compose my messages. Why would I want a one-foot computer to do the same thing?

Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.

I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.

If you know me so well, tell me which hand that I use.

Never was a cornflake girl; Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.

I hurt myself today to see if I could feel. I hurt myself, you said to try to make him feel. So I hurt myself again to see if he'd see me. I hurt myself again and no, he never could see me.

And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.

I've been raising up my hands drive another nail in just what God needs one more victim

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

There's a sea secret in me / it's plain to see it is rising / but I must be flowing liquid diamonds / calling for my soul / at the corners of the world

When one doesn’t want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren’t competing against each other. I think when you are in the same field, it’s difficult to leave it outside and not compete. Then when the doors are closed, that pervades everything.

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

I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.

From in the shadow she calls. And in the shadow she finds a way, finds a way. And in the shadow she crawls, clutching her faded photograph. My image under her thumb. Yes with a message for my heart. She’s been everybody else’s girl maybe one day she’ll be her own.

I wanted to marry Lucifer... I don't consider Lucifer an evil force...I feel his presence with his music. I feel like he comes and sits on my piano.

Is your place in heaven worth giving up these kisses

I'm the queen of the nerds.

And my Saab is so great I'm gonna marry it.

Men have periods too, they just don't bleed.

Anyone who doesn't belive in Faeries, isn't worth knowing.

Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon

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

I'm trying not to move, it's just your ghost passing through

Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try.

Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14,000 children were sent away from their families in Cuba, some never to reunite again. Pan Am flights took the children to Miami FL, 'Never-Never Land', and the children became known as the 'Peter Pans.' I wrote this song for my daughter, and it is sung for all the daughters and mothers, fathers and brothers who felt this pain of separation all because of governments and their politics.

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.

We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.

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.

I think there are pieces of me you've never seen.

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

When you value your crew, they look after you.

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

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.

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.

God sometimes you just don't come through, Do you need a woman to look after you?

Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy

For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.

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.

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

She's been everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own.

My grandmother really liked virgins. There's nothing wrong with virgins, there's a time and a place for that. I had other things on my mind... like Robert Plant.

I'm a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.

This whole Christian theology thing is that god came down to experience life through his son. Well, how's he experiencing life if he doesn't get laid? Give me a break. And why would he not get laid, as he created the apparatus in the first place?

I like butter and the people who like butter.

What I want is not to want what isn't mine

People are the most fascinating mysteries I've ever read.