Quotes by Tori Amos

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.
– 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
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
– Tori Amos
I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
– Tori Amos
I moved to LA when I was 21. I felt like a kid in a candy shop. I'd be driving down the road and go 'Mmmmm'... there was a guy and Mmmmm... there was a guy!
– Tori Amos
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.
– Tori Amos
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.
– Tori Amos
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.
– 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
People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.
– Tori Amos
Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.
– 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
Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.
– Tori Amos
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
– 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
What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.
– Tori Amos
When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?
– Tori Amos
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.
– Tori Amos
You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.
– Tori Amos
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.
– Tori Amos
You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.
– Tori Amos
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.'
– 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
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
– Tori Amos
This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.
– Tori Amos
There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.
– Tori Amos
There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
– 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
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
People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.
– Tori Amos
People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.
– Tori Amos
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
– Tori Amos
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.
– Tori Amos
Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.
– Tori Amos
If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.
– Tori Amos
If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.
– Tori Amos
I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.
– Tori Amos
I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.
– 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
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.
– Tori Amos
I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.
– Tori Amos
I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
– Tori Amos
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.
– Tori Amos
I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.
– Tori Amos
I don't see music as working.
– 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
I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.
– Tori Amos
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
– Tori Amos
After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
– Tori Amos
A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.
– Tori Amos