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.
TORI AMOSWhen I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
More Tori Amos Quotes
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A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
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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.
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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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Some people say, I’d give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn’t. I didn’t enjoy being 30.
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The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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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
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Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
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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 music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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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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