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 AMOSIn 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
More Tori Amos Quotes
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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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got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
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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’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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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
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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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I think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
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I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
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These precious things, let them bleed.
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I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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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 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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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It’s a bit sacred.
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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.
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