Top 100 Tori Amos Quotes

#1. If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

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#2. Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

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#3. I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

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#4. 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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#5. I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

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#6. Men have periods too, they just don't bleed.

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#7. When they say take from my body, I think I'll take from mine instead. Getting off, getting off while they're all down stairs.

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#8. On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.

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#9. I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.

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#10. I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

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#11. If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?

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#12. Not being afraid to make changes is a valuable tool - knowing you can change back.

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#13. The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don't get confused.

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#14. What I want is not to want what isn't mine

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#15. Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.

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#16. In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

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#17. When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great.

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#18. And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.

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#19. 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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#20. I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.

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#21. I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.

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#22. This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

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#23. Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.

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#24. I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

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#25. When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.

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#26. I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

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#27. I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

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#28. Sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here, silent all these years

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#29. I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.

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#30. If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning.

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#31. Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.

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#32. There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

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#33. Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.

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#34. When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience ... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

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#35. You have to be clear what your message is and what you're doing. I mean, Miley Cyrus is an amazing talent, and sometimes you kind of just want to say, 'We know you're not Hannah Montana anymore. We know that, my dear. My darling. Now, go be great.'

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#36. Baker, baker, can you explain, if truly his heart was made of icing.

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#37. Boy, you better pray that I bleed real soon.

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#38. Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.

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#39. Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift ... Womanhood is a choice.

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#40. 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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#41. 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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#42. If you know me so well, tell me which hand that I use.

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#43. But I needed to access the Dark Prince in myself, instead of pulling in men who had access to it.

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#44. An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.

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#45. I'm a daughter of a minister and I love chasing the Dark. That which is hidden. I like licking it like ice cream

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#46. I like involved projects.

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#47. My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.

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#48. There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

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#49. Every artist is born in a place, within a family, and though she may leave those sources far behind, they remain within her.

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#50. Every place you land in life has a reason and a lesson.

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#51. And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried?

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#52. I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was.

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#53. I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

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#54. 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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#55. We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.

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#56. My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.

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#57. I've worked with many powerful men in the music industry.

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#58. Those of you who are strong need to be there for those who have lost someone today. We have to be here for each other right now.

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#59. Your apocalypse was fab.

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#60. We can all choose to become our potential, not just talk about it or dream about it. But daily, make a shift whereby we begin living and being our potential. With each day, that potential can expand because we are open to learning something every day.

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#61. My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.

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#62. Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.

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#63. My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.

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#64. Even a glamorous bitch can be in need.

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#65. My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

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#66. You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something to them.

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#67. Father Lucifer, you never looked so sane.

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#68. You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.

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#69. Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand.

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#70. She told me once there is a part of her in everyone, though Neil believes I'm more Delirium than Tori, and Death taught me to accept that, you know, wear your butterflies with pride.

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#71. 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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#72. I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.

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#73. Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

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#74. I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

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#75. Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

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#76. I guess my husband is a muse as well.

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#77. My parents think I'm better under pressure.

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#78. I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.

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#79. I've been raising up my hands drive another nail in just what God needs one more victim

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#80. There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.

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#81. Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

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#82. The truth lies in between the 1st and the 40th drink

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#83. Even if everything else is downplayed, I'll wear good shoes.

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#84. The rain is sharp today, as you shock me sane.

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#85. I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

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#86. Get off the cross, we need the wood.

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#87. I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors ... and it's the shade that defines the light.

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#88. You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.

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#89. Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

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#90. That's the thing about letting old lovers go. You don't stop loving some of them. There are a couple you love no less than you ever did. Not to mention namesbut I'm still in love with a couple. You're not going to try and make it work again, but if they needed you, you'd drop everything.

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#91. 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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#92. I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing.

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#93. 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.

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#94. There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.

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#95. For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

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#96. You don't have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.

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#97. Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.

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#98. When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

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#99. I can't believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that's what it takes to sail you home.

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#100. I'm standing naked before you. Don't you want more than sex?

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