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.
TORI AMOSI’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
More Tori Amos Quotes
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I’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
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Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.’
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When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
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If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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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.
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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.
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As the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
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Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.
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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.
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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.
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I’m very at home working with mythology.
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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.
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Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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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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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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