Tori Amos Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Tori Amos
Tori Amos Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Strange, i thought i knew you well, thought i had read the sky, thought i had seen a change in your eyes.
Somebody will come backstage and go, 'You saved me.' And I will have to say, 'Stop right there. You saved yourself.'
When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.
I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said 'Tori, you've made it. You're nothing until you've been bootlegged.'
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.
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.
I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.
When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I've had conversations with journalists that I've never had with anybody else.
I'm a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody's ready to slit their wrists.
There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.
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?
There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
We don't often see our own stories. Good artists are the ones that whisper our own stories back to us.
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.
I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.
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.
A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something to them.
I realized that what was most important to me was following my own path, and not the one laid down for me by others.