My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
TORI AMOSI’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
More Tori Amos Quotes
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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
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Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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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.
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I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
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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.
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I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
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Tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand.
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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.
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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.
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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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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.
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To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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