Tori Amos Quotes

#1. Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

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#2. I can play the flute. Music was my favourite A-level, and I used to love composing my and stylising my voice to sound like 90's singing sensation Tori Amos.

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#3. What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

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#4. 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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#5. Being able to hear an opinion. And then how to apply that opinion is something I am learning and working with every day. What can be tricky is how to differentiate a good suggestion that you should apply to your work [from] someone's personal taste at their opinionated best.

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#6. I'm too young for a man, but I'm too old for a boy. So, can't we just pretend, that I'm older than I really am, but then, only little girls pretend.

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#7. Pretty is never beautiful.

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#8. Do we soon forget the things we cannot see?

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#9. As soon as you stop being humbled by the creation process, Little One, it is so much bigger than you are. And when you think it is you and you are it, it will drown you or burn you alive.

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#10. There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

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#11. Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.

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

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#13. I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.

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#14. 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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#15. It's hard to hide a hundred girls in your hair.

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#16. I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

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

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

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

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#21. Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what's difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That's very tricky.

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

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#23. I don't own a computer. I have a nine-foot piano in my home to compose my messages. Why would I want a one-foot computer to do the same thing?

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#24. There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said 'Tori, you've made it. You're nothing until you've been bootlegged.'

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#25. As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.

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

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

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

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#30. I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

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#31. 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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#32. There are quite a few very funny people in my life. You know those people who don't mean to be funny, they just come out with these zingers that just make you howl with laughter. Usually you find these people in the road crew. A good crew is a key to a healthy funny bone.

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

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#34. Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up.

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#35. When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly.

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#36. 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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#37. Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing.

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#38. There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.

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#39. I don't see music as working.

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#40. People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.

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#41. If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering.

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#42. It's not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it's okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner.

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#43. And my Saab is so great I'm gonna marry it.

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#44. I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

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#45. I'm very at home working with mythology.

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#46. I know that mess spelled backwards is ssem and I felt much better armed with that information.

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#47. In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you'll create something magical that might be the best thing you've ever accomplished

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#48. 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'.

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#49. I'm the queen of the nerds.

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#50. What girls do to each other is beyond description. No Chinese torture comes close.

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#51. I'm trying not to move, it's just your ghost passing through

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#52. 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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#53. sleeping beauty/
trips me with a frown

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#54. Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.

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#55. I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

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#56. I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

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

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

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#59. Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?

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#60. She said, these dead petals,
honey, brought me here

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#61. People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

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#62. 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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#63. 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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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.

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#67. I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.

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#68. Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

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

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#70. 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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#71. I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.

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#72. People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.

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#73. I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off.

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#74. I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

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#75. There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.

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

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

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#78. I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. I would really just love to collaborate on that.

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#79. My childhood was extreme.

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#80. Carbon made only wants to be unmade.

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#81. I wanted to marry Lucifer ... I don't consider Lucifer an evil force ... I feel his presence with his music. I feel like he comes and sits on my piano ...

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

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#84. Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.

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#85. 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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#86. When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.

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

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#88. Over the last few hours I've allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore.

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

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#90. I really respect anybody who stands by their truth.

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#91. Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.

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#92. I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul. Dive deep into your soul and explore it. I don't want to renounce my dark side. The truth has always held an enormous interest for me.

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#93. Gimme peace, love, and a hard cock!

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#94. The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

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

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

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#97. Have a seat, while I take to the sky.

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

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#99. When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.

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#100. The only way out is to go so far in ...

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