Tori Amos (Singer)

Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand.

I have been surprised, excited and pleasantly shocked by these comics that are extensions of the songs that I have loved and therefore welcome these amazing stories of pictures and words because they are uncompromisingly inspiring. It shows you thought is a powerful, formidable essence and can have a breathtaking domino effect.

— Tori Amos love

This is very simple in the world of chicks: some are hoochies, some are not, and some should never try to be. It's no different from the idea of sports. Now, I can go on my little rowing machine for four times a week, twenty-two minutes a time, and I can feel as if I flirt with the sporting world. Similar to the idea that a woman can put on something cuter for her man, for those moments, and flirt with garments that a hoochie woman might be pushing. But never for one moment should you get confused. My little rowing machine and I cannot consider ourselves athletes. Wearing the same garment does not a hoochie woman make. So if you are a true hoochie woman, may garments below the navel always be in your future. If you are not, then please don't throw away your cotton zippy jacket.

— Tori Amos time

...the most influential journeys I have had have been with Ayahuasca, the vine from the Amazon, the combination of that and mushrooms. They give me the trots and such! It's very much a medicine woman, medicine man's journey drug, where you go inside. It's not a social thing. It's an internal experience. I experiment with things that are usually an internal experience, because that's just what excites me. And yes, it does sometimes give me visions. But my intention when I am doing it is very different than recreational. I don't do it recreationally. I do it to go do inner work, and I'm very clear before I do it what I'm searching for. That way, there's no abuse suffered and I don't rely on it. It's just one more tool that I use sometimes.

— Tori Amos time

Yeah, there was a period in the late '80s where I was working with different shaman. Myself and a friend, Beene, would take ayahuasca - but it wouldn't be in the liquid form, it would be a freeze-dried pill - and mushrooms. Some of those trips were eighteen hours long and I'll never forget, once I ended up sitting by the bush trying to ask the flowers why they didn't like me. It's like, Why can't I be your friend? I was crawling out of my skin at that time. In my twenties I was really... I was just losing my mind.

— Tori Amos time

Men have periods, too... they just don

— Tori Amos men

I love my Saab.

— Tori Amos love

I got a Saab Convertible.

— Tori Amos

And I started to think about this story that was taking over my car at that moment. "Jamaica Inn" walked into my Saab and she said, "You might not like my story because i'm not gonna tell you how it ends yet, and you need to travel it with me.

— Tori Amos art

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

— Tori Amos great

Dark Energy. It can be found in the observable Universe. Found in ratios of 75% more than any other substance. Dark Energy. It can be found in religious extremists, in cheerleaders. To come to the conclusion that Dark signifies mean and malevolent would define 75% of the Universe as an evil force. Alternatively, to think that some cheerleaders don't have razors in their snatch is to be foolishly unarmed.

— Tori Amos evil

And I rode along side Till you lost me there In the open road And I rode along side Till the honey spread Itself so thin For me to break your bread For me to take your word I had to steal it.

— Tori Amos self

You could taste heaven perfectly.

— Tori Amos heaven

An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.

— Tori Amos angel

Just what God needs: one more victim. Why do we crucify ourselves?

— Tori Amos need

Got enough guilt to start my own religion.

— Tori Amos religion

I've got a cat named Easter; he says, 'Will you ever learn? You're just an empty cage, girl, if you kill the bird.'

— Tori Amos age

I found the secret to life; I'm okay when everything is not okay

— Tori Amos life

God, sometimes you just don't come through. Do you need a woman to look after you?

— Tori Amos time

So if I die today, I'll be the happy phantom, And I'll go chasing the nuns out in the yard, ...And the atrocities of school I can forgive: The happy phantom has no right to bitch.

— Tori Amos ya

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 sex

So you can make me cum; that doesn't make you Jesus.

— Tori Amos you

So you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts. What's so amazing about really deep thoughts? Boy, you'd best pray that I bleed real soon -- How's that thought for you?

— Tori Amos thoughts

Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy

— Tori Amos beauty

I think there are pieces of me you've never seen.

— Tori Amos you

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.

— Tori Amos believe

If you know me so well, then tell me which hand I use.

— Tori Amos you

A man bites into a dry peach and says "This peach is not good;" the peach replies "It is not my fault that you don't know the proper use for a dry peach."

— Tori Amos lies

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

— Tori Amos life

Nothing's gonna stop me from floating.

— Tori Amos

I have got my rape hat on, honey, but I always could accessorize.

— Tori Amos rape

You thought that you were the bomb, yes well so did I.

— Tori Amos thought

Just having thoughts of Marianne, quickest girl in the frying pan.

— Tori Amos thoughts

Say a word to the hangman for me, me and my baby.

— Tori Amos man

Is it sweet, your sting?

— Tori Amos sweet

So she prays for a prankster and lust in the marriage bed And he waits till she can give And he waits and he waits.

— Tori Amos marriage

And I fear my fear is greater than my faith

— Tori Amos faith

Driving in my Saab, on my way to Ireland.

— Tori Amos

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

— Tori Amos man

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.

— Tori Amos life

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.

— Tori Amos soul

I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts.

— Tori Amos love

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

— Tori Amos fear

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 women

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

— Tori Amos people

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

— Tori Amos fear

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

— Tori Amos courage

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.

— Tori Amos relationship

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.

— Tori Amos art

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.

— Tori Amos play

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.

— Tori Amos journey

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.

— Tori Amos art

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.

— Tori Amos people

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.

— Tori Amos life

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

— Tori Amos art

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.

— Tori Amos love

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.

— Tori Amos love

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 people

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

— Tori Amos love

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

— Tori Amos inspiration

A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.

— Tori Amos marriage

I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s.

— Tori Amos sex

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