Quotes By Tori Amos
I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.
Tori Amos
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.
Tori Amos
I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.
Tori Amos
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?
Tori Amos
The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
Tori Amos
So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.
Tori Amos
People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.
Tori Amos
Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.
Tori Amos
I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!
Tori Amos
I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.
Tori Amos
I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.
Tori Amos
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
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.
Tori Amos
Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.
Tori Amos
There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.
Tori Amos
Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
Tori Amos
I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.
Tori Amos