Top quotes by 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. Votes: 31

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light. Votes: 31

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe. Votes: 28

You have to be clear what your message is and what you're doing. I mean, Miley Cyrus is an amazing talent, and sometimes you kind of just want to say, 'We know you're not Hannah Montana anymore. We know that, my dear. My darling. Now, go be great.' Votes: 24

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols. Votes: 24

Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it. Votes: 24

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. Votes: 23

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. Votes: 18

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other. Votes: 14

There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring. Votes: 13

I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way! Votes: 10

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. Votes: 10

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. Votes: 10

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration. Votes: 8

A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh. Votes: 7

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down. Votes: 7

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture. Votes: 7

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. I would really just love to collaborate on that. Votes: 6

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power. Votes: 5

Even if everything else is downplayed, I'll wear good shoes. Votes: 5

Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it. Votes: 5

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked. Votes: 4

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely. Votes: 4

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily. Votes: 3

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse. Votes: 3

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me. Votes: 3

My parents think I'm better under pressure. Votes: 2

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? Votes: 1

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 0

I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty. Votes: 0

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men. Votes: 0

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music. Votes: 0

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing. Votes: 0

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger. Votes: 0

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less. Votes: 0

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little. Votes: 0

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself? Votes: 0

You don't leave people who can't defend themselves. Votes: 0

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege. Votes: 0

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful. Votes: 0

Romance is important to me, and to have a romance with your husband takes a bit of doing. The key is to make sure your partner misses you. That means you have to take yourself away. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me. Votes: 0

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen. Votes: 0

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. Votes: 0

If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass. Votes: 0

I think that people who can't believe in faeries aren't worth knowing. I just think that alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries. Votes: 0

Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business. Votes: 0

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes. Votes: 0

My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told. Votes: 0

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I like cosy, intimate houses. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Confucius does his crossword with a pen. Votes: 0

To heal the wound, you have to go into the dark night of the soul. Votes: 0

Haze all clouding up in my mind in the daze of the why it could've never been. Votes: 0

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Votes: 0

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun. Votes: 0

I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive. Votes: 0

It's [a miscarriage] all very thief-in-the-night. No one really knows what to say. You go into the emergency room, you think you're going to be a mum and you walk out empty. It's all neat and tidy, there's this potential being in your life and you're empty - all cleaned up and put back together, but completely shattered. Votes: 0

In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you'll create something magical that might be the best thing you've ever accomplished Votes: 0

Anyone who doesn't belive in Faeries, isn't worth knowing. Votes: 0

Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice. Votes: 0

I'm a grown woman. I've earned my experiences, my scars. Votes: 0

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes. Votes: 0

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad. Votes: 0

Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what's difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That's very tricky. Votes: 0

Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up. Votes: 0

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred. Votes: 0

In my new life, no room for a lost boy. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

She's been everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own. Votes: 0

If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play. Votes: 0

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11. Votes: 0

These precious things, let them bleed. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes. Votes: 0

Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true. Votes: 0

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring. Votes: 0

The violence between women is unbelievable...women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding. Votes: 0

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone. Votes: 0

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus. Votes: 0

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating. Votes: 0

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store. Votes: 0

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again. Votes: 0

It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer. Votes: 0

An ounce of breast milk is even more potent than the finest tequila. Votes: 0

I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive. Votes: 0

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose. Votes: 0

I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge? Votes: 0

Somebody will come backstage and go, 'You saved me.' And I will have to say, 'Stop right there. You saved yourself.' Votes: 0

If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night. Votes: 0

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house. Votes: 0

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career. Votes: 0

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer. Votes: 0

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually. Votes: 0

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil. Votes: 0

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness. Votes: 0

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded. Votes: 0

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do. Votes: 0

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights. Votes: 0

Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you. Votes: 0

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 back-story. Votes: 0

When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down. Votes: 0

Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It's about discipline. You have to push yourself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving. Votes: 0

I have built my world through Native American mythology. Votes: 0

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more. Votes: 0

The pop world has really opened its doors. Votes: 0

Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained. Votes: 0

To me glamour isn't about being sparkly. Votes: 0

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world. Votes: 0

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie. Votes: 0

I've worked with many powerful men in the music industry. Votes: 0

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical. Votes: 0

I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have. Votes: 0

A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now. Votes: 0

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of. Votes: 0

An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly. Votes: 0

and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree Votes: 0

And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried? Votes: 0

And my Saab is so great I'm gonna marry it. Votes: 0

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it. Votes: 0

Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon Votes: 0

Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try. Votes: 0

As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going. Votes: 0

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me. Votes: 0

Baker, baker, can you explain, if truly his heart was made of icing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Boy, you better pray that I bleed real soon. Votes: 0

Boys are cute, but food is cuter Votes: 0

Carbon made only wants to be unmade. Votes: 0

Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain. Votes: 0

Do we soon forget the things we cannot see? Votes: 0

Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight. Votes: 0

Every place you land in life has a reason and a lesson. Votes: 0

Father Lucifer, you never looked so sane. Votes: 0

Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing. Votes: 0

For many years, I shut down that place inside myself that needed to rage, cry, ask questions and basically just express herself. I made a conscious choice when I put (the song) 'Me and a Gun' on the record not to stay a victim anymore. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Get off the cross, we need the wood. Votes: 0

Getting people to go above and beyond the call of duty can be achieved but only if you, the artist, are willing to go above and beyond any and all calls of duty yourself. Votes: 0

God sometimes you just don't come through, Do you need a woman to look after you? Votes: 0

got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor's been. Votes: 0

Have a seat, while I take to the sky. Votes: 0

He said, first let's just unzip your religion down. Votes: 0

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'. Votes: 0

Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I believe in eating. I think women especially have this fear of eating, and I think there is a whole euphoric plane you can rise to when you have a good meal. You sit down and with every bite you honestly just say thank you. Votes: 0

I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors … and it's the shade that defines the light. Votes: 0

I call that god the Little G. Because the god that we've been worshipping is not to me the Supreme Creator. Anybody who needs to control and make people feel ashamed. . .It's like, 'I send my only begotten son. . .' Well you know, that concept of sending a son where we as women could, like, breastfeed him and give him milk, but he's not gonna soil his dinky with us? What's that all about? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things. Votes: 0

I don't allow challenges to trip me up. Votes: 0

I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was. Votes: 0

I don't know what a shrink would call me. I don't want to know. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks. Votes: 0

I don't see music as working. Votes: 0

I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest. Votes: 0

I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing. Votes: 0

I found the secret to life: I'm ok when everything is not ok. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life. Votes: 0

I get tired of wearing the same thing all the time too. Votes: 0

I guess my husband is a muse as well. Votes: 0

I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

I just hand shoes on the wall. They're architecture you know. Votes: 0

I know that mess spelled backwards is ssem and I felt much better armed with that information. Votes: 0

I like butter and the people who like butter. Votes: 0

I like involved projects. Votes: 0

I realized that what was most important to me was following my own path, and not the one laid down for me by others. Votes: 0

I really really love Christ, but I'm not a Christian. Votes: 0

I really respect anybody who stands by their truth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare Votes: 0

I survived this torture which left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through sex. I really do feel as though I was psychologically mutilated that night and now I'm trying to put the pieces back together again. Through love, not hatred. And through my music. My strength has been to open again, to life, and my victory is the fact that, despite it all, I kept alive my vulnerability. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing. Votes: 0

I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul. Votes: 0

I think there are pieces of me you've never seen. Votes: 0

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer. Votes: 0

I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap.... Votes: 0

I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn't get on with my own life because I was so busy with his. Votes: 0

I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys. Votes: 0

I want to be an integrated woman. Votes: 0

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter. Votes: 0

I wanted to marry Lucifer. I feel his presence in my music. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters. Votes: 0

I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate. Votes: 0

If all I can say is I'm not in this swamp, I'm not in this swamp then there is not a rope in front of me and there is not an alligator behind me and there is not a girl sitting at the edge eating a hot dog and if I believe that, then dying would be the only answer because then Death couldn't come and say Peachy to me anymore and after all she has a brother who believes in hope. Votes: 0

If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering. Votes: 0

If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit. Votes: 0

If you don't think, and you have no wit and you have so many hangups that you can't look beyond your cup of coffee then you're never going to understand what I'm really saying. Because you know what? You're going to shut down and close off before you hear me. If I'm threatening you, you're going to see it the way you need to see it so you can dismiss me. Votes: 0

If you jump, you best jump far. Votes: 0

If you know me so well, tell me which hand that I use. Votes: 0

If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself. Votes: 0

If you're a lame brain, then you're a lame brain. I can't help that. Votes: 0

I'm a daughter of a minister and I love chasing the Dark. That which is hidden. I like licking it like ice cream Votes: 0

I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off. Votes: 0

I'm a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody's ready to slit their wrists. Votes: 0

I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something. Votes: 0

I'm really into moderation. Too much of anything will harm you in the end. Too much sugar. Too much pasta. I'm into drugs as a teaching tool, which is why I only take hallucinogenics. I mean, it's not like I've never done cocaine, but, on the whole, if I can't see dancing elephants then I'm not interested. Votes: 0

I'm standing naked before you. Don't you want more than sex? Votes: 0

I'm the queen of the nerds. Votes: 0

I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over.... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm trying not to move, it's just your ghost passing through Votes: 0

I'm very at home working with mythology. Votes: 0

In order for my live performance to work, which is about generating a focused energy for about an hour and a half, it is necessary for me to listen and take in someone else's focused energy the day of or the day before the live show. That can transpire through a conversation, or inspiration can occur by looking through any type of visual book which sparks a narrative. That narrative then becomes today's seed and can then take root in music terms, where a sonic tree begins to grow. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Inspiration quite frequently arrives as a surprise. The key is being open to it. Votes: 0

Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart? Votes: 0

Is your place in heaven worth giving up these kisses Votes: 0

It took the love of a good man [to heal]. When I was reverting back into my, let's say, perversions, he would say: 'Let's go get an ice cream. I am not going to enable you. If you can only come as a wanton woman for hire, because you feel dirty and shamed, then no. Women are goddesses.' And I know that and I believe that. I chose a man who believed that, too. Votes: 0

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes. Votes: 0

It's not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it's okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner. Votes: 0

I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets. Votes: 0

I've been raising up my hands drive another nail in just what God needs one more victim Votes: 0

I've got enough guilt to start my own religion. Votes: 0

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Look, I'm standing naked before you; Don't you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can't claim innocence. Votes: 0

Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream. Votes: 0

Men have periods too, they just don't bleed. Votes: 0

My childhood was extreme. Votes: 0

My favorite saying is, 'If it's too loud, turn it up.' Votes: 0

My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Neil [Gaiman, creator of the comic Sandman, featuring the Amos-based character Delirium] believes that faeries have gone beyond cool. They've transcended cool. I just think alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries. I'm sure I'll start thinking now about all the people I know who don't believe, that I quite like. We can still go have a pint. Not the Chardonnay, though. Votes: 0

Never was a cornflake girl; Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls. Votes: 0

Not being afraid to make changes is a valuable tool - knowing you can change back. Votes: 0

Not everyone wants you to become your potential, for whatever reason. Votes: 0

Nothing's gonna stop me from floating Votes: 0

On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People are the most fascinating mysteries I've ever read. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People can travel great distances on a computer, so why can't we travel that way emotionally? Votes: 0

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself. Votes: 0

Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It's the perfect job. Votes: 0

Pretty is never beautiful. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name Votes: 0

So then I though I'd make some plans, but Fire thought she'd really rather be Water instead... Votes: 0

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30. Votes: 0

Sometimes I breathe you in and I know you know. Votes: 0

Sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here, silent all these years Votes: 0

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it. Votes: 0

Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new ideas because you don't want to take somebody else's ideas. You need to find your own. So if you go to different artistic mediums, whether it's dance or it's visual arts or films or books, stories, sometimes it gets you hearing things, hearing progressions that you wouldn't come up with if you were just listening to other music because you don't want to copy progressions you've just heard. Votes: 0

Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they're beautiful. Votes: 0

Sometimes you are forced to defend your beliefs. Sometimes you are forced to look at relationships that aren't positive anymore. There are times when I have had to make peace with the fact that I am at war. And sometimes you have to fight those who do not want love to conquer all. Votes: 0

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be. Votes: 0

Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie. Votes: 0

Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song. Votes: 0

Strange, i thought i knew you well, thought i had read the sky, thought i had seen a change in your eyes. Votes: 0

Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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.' Votes: 0

The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out. Votes: 0

The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on. Votes: 0

The only way out is to go so far in... Votes: 0

The rain is sharp today, as you shock me sane. Votes: 0

The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don't get confused. Votes: 0

The sun is getting dim, will I pay for who I've been? Votes: 0

The truth lies in between the 1st and the 40th drink Votes: 0

The way I see it, the men that I'm with, whoever they are, it's like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can't accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable. Votes: 0

The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it. Votes: 0

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.' Votes: 0

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world. Votes: 0

There are quite a few very funny people in my life. You know those people who don't mean to be funny, they just come out with these zingers that just make you howl with laughter. Usually you find these people in the road crew. A good crew is a key to a healthy funny bone. Votes: 0

There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs. Votes: 0

There certainly are situations where I feel not empowered or uninspired. Particularly when the person's agenda is to intimidate through abusing their position or their authority. When I am present and in a nonreactive state, then I can become like snake and slide through their "intimidation net" back into the creative plane. When I am in a reactive state, I usually regret responding, because usually all that happens is that the intimidator feels righteously vindicated. Votes: 0

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s. Votes: 0

There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is. Votes: 0

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Those of you who are strong need to be there for those who have lost someone today. We have to be here for each other right now. Votes: 0

To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad. Votes: 0

Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller. Votes: 0

We all get intimidated by showing ourselves, for whatever reason, we think, If I really show who I am, and someone goes [pfftt] then it's gonna crush me. Well, it's not gonna crush me. It doesn't crush you if somebody does that- somebody will do that. Many times. And once you accept that that's not why you're doing it, you're doing it because that's your form of expression. Votes: 0

We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves. Votes: 0

We can all choose to become our potential, not just talk about it or dream about it. But daily, make a shift whereby we begin living and being our potential. With each day, that potential can expand because we are open to learning something every day. Votes: 0

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work. Votes: 0

What do you plan to do with all your freedom? Votes: 0

What I want is not to want what isn't mine Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.' Votes: 0

When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I've had conversations with journalists that I've never had with anybody else. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people? Votes: 0

When you value your crew, they look after you. Votes: 0

Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results. Votes: 0

Women shouldn't deny their dark side. Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they're beautiful. You'll have to approach them. Drink a glass of wine with them, take them for a walk on the beach, examine yourself. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist. Votes: 0

You don't have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok. Votes: 0

You don't have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay. Votes: 0

You don't know the power that you have with that tear in your hand Votes: 0

You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind. Votes: 0

You know when people smile too much? It's painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I'm trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm. Votes: 0

You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something to them. Votes: 0

Your apocalypse was fab. Votes: 0

You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird. Votes: 0

You're only popular with anorexia. Votes: 0