I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you’re not hiding anymore. It’s really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.
TORI AMOSIs there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
More Tori Amos Quotes
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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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I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
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I’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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I want to be an integrated woman.
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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
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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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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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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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There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
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I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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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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A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.
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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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