Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
TORI AMOSWhen interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
More Tori Amos Quotes
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Pretty is never beautiful.
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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 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.
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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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Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
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If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
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Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
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I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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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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Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’
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My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
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I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
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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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