black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

Tori Amos

Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’
TORI AMOS

Backstage Saved Stop
Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
TORI AMOS

Able Healing Sitting
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.
TORI AMOS

Country Dream People Thinking
There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
TORI AMOS

Able Men Women Younger
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.
TORI AMOS

Children Night Thinking
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.
TORI AMOS

Different Thinking Two
Look, I’m standing naked before you; Don’t you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can’t claim innocence.
TORI AMOS

Looks Naked Sex
If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
TORI AMOS

Challenges Deals Want
Don’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.
TORI AMOS

Foolish Giving Minded Tonight
Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
TORI AMOS

Art Chocolate Thinking
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 AMOS

Humanity Song Trust
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.
TORI AMOS

Daughter Mother Song
You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
TORI AMOS

Justify Off Okay Pissed
I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
TORI AMOS

Dirty Hands Worker
Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
TORI AMOS

Jobs Perfect Work
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.
TORI AMOS

Believe Order Powerful

When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tori Amos Quotes