110+ Tori Amos Quotes On Friendship, Tour And Kate Bush

Tori Amos is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She is a classically trained musician who has been releasing albums since 1992, when her debut album, Little Earthquakes, was released. Her music is often described as a mix of alternative rock, art pop, and piano-driven ballads. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Tori Amos on love, friendship, life.

Top 10 Tori Amos Quotes

1. Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
2. Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.
3. Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.
4. We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.
5. It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.
6. The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.
7. Haze all clouding up in my mind in the daze of the why it could've never been.
8. She's been everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own.
9. I'm not somebody that gets played a lot at parties and weddings. I mean, you know, you mention my name and you get an eye roll, until, of course, you're jumping off a bridge.
10. 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 Short Quotes

• I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?
• I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
• Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they're beautiful.
• A lot of songs are derivative of each other.
• I'm trying not to move, it's just your ghost passing through
• If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning.
• I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap.
• Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
• The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out.
• These precious things, let them bleed.

Tori Amos Quotes About Love

Sometimes you are forced to defend your beliefs. Sometimes you are forced to look at relationships that aren't positive anymore. There are times when I have had to make peace with the fact that I am at war. And sometimes you have to fight those who do not want love to conquer all. — Tori Amos

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

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

Muhammad, my friend, I'm getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law, and what about the deal on the flying trapeze? — Tori Amos

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

I really really love Christ, but I'm not a Christian. — Tori Amos

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works. — Tori Amos

I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs... because they have the most to hide. The guys that are in the most pain are usually the ones with the biggest hearts. — Tori Amos

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

A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming. — Tori Amos

Tori Amos Quotes About Life

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. — Tori Amos

Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page. — Tori Amos

In my new life, no room for a lost boy. — Tori Amos

I found the secret to life: I'm ok when everything is not ok. — Tori Amos

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 — Tori Amos

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

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little. — Tori Amos

Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing. — Tori Amos

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. — Tori Amos

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. — Tori Amos

Tori Amos Quotes About People

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

I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing. — Tori Amos

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. — Tori Amos

I think that people who can't believe in faeries aren't worth knowing. I just think that alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries. — Tori Amos

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

I'm a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes. — Tori Amos

People can be quite bullish with their opinions. That does not mean they have their finger on the pulse. It just means they value their own opinion. — Tori Amos

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. — Tori Amos

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege. — Tori Amos

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself. — Tori Amos

Tori Amos Quotes About Girl

The last thing I want to be known as is 'The Girl Who Got Raped'. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor. — Tori Amos

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. — Tori Amos

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work. — Tori Amos

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. — Tori Amos

You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird. — Tori Amos

I'm a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody's ready to slit their wrists. — Tori Amos

From in the shadow she calls. And in the shadow she finds a way, finds a way. And in the shadow she crawls, clutching her faded photograph. My image under her thumb. Yes with a message for my heart. She’s been everybody else’s girl maybe one day she’ll be her own. — Tori Amos

Never was a cornflake girl; Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls. — Tori Amos

Tori Amos Famous Quotes And Sayings

It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer. — Tori Amos

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. — Tori Amos

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless. — Tori Amos

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? — 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

Women shouldn’t deny their dark side. Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they’re beautiful. You’ll have to approach them. Drink a glass of wine with them, take them for a walk on the beach, examine yourself. — Tori Amos

I've always seen the songs as having a consciousness. Since I was two-and-a-half they would come to me from nowhere. I never thought that I was conjuring them by myself, and I was always grateful they would come and visit... They've always been very much alive. They don't have a physical body like we do but there seems to be an awareness. — Tori Amos

I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors … and it's the shade that defines the light. — Tori Amos

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding. — Tori Amos

I'm really into moderation. Too much of anything will harm you in the end. Too much sugar. Too much pasta. I'm into drugs as a teaching tool, which is why I only take hallucinogenics. I mean, it's not like I've never done cocaine, but, on the whole, if I can't see dancing elephants then I'm not interested. — Tori Amos

It's [a miscarriage] all very thief-in-the-night. No one really knows what to say. You go into the emergency room, you think you're going to be a mum and you walk out empty. It's all neat and tidy, there's this potential being in your life and you're empty - all cleaned up and put back together, but completely shattered. — Tori Amos

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

I wanted to marry Lucifer. I feel his presence in my music. — Tori Amos

Confucius does his crossword with a pen. — Tori Amos

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be. — Tori Amos

Get off the cross, we need the wood. — Tori Amos

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself. — Tori Amos

Inspiration quite frequently arrives as a surprise. The key is being open to it. — Tori Amos

There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business. — Tori Amos

I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare. — Tori Amos

An ounce of breast milk is even more potent than the finest tequila. — Tori Amos

Let's be honest. You let yourself be pulled in because it felt good to be wanted, needed. But then it went too far, as projected images always do. If it's not a real image, but one that has been projected on to you, then you can keep up the masquerade for only so long before the mask cracks and the paint on the mask peels away. — 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

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. — Tori Amos

Have a seat, while I take to the sky. — Tori Amos

To heal the wound, you have to go into the dark night of the soul. — Tori Amos

What do you plan to do with all your freedom? — Tori Amos

The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on. — Tori Amos

And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried? — Tori Amos

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. — Tori Amos

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. — Tori Amos

There's a sea secret in me / it's plain to see it is rising / but I must be flowing liquid diamonds / calling for my soul / at the corners of the world — Tori Amos

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

I realized that what was most important to me was following my own path, and not the one laid down for me by others. — Tori Amos

Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller. — Tori Amos

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. — Tori Amos

I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you're not hiding anymore. It's really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself. — Tori Amos

Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon — Tori Amos

I don't allow challenges to trip me up. — Tori Amos

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music. — Tori Amos

I really respect anybody who stands by their truth. — Tori Amos

Men have periods too, they just don't bleed. — Tori Amos

If all I can say is I'm not in this swamp, I'm not in this swamp then there is not a rope in front of me and there is not an alligator behind me and there is not a girl sitting at the edge eating a hot dog and if I believe that, then dying would be the only answer because then Death couldn't come and say Peachy to me anymore and after all she has a brother who believes in hope. — Tori Amos

Not being afraid to make changes is a valuable tool - knowing you can change back. — Tori Amos

I believe in eating. I think women especially have this fear of eating, and I think there is a whole euphoric plane you can rise to when you have a good meal. You sit down and with every bite you honestly just say thank you. — Tori Amos

You're only popular with anorexia. — Tori Amos

and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree — Tori Amos

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. — Tori Amos

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.' — Tori Amos

Getting people to go above and beyond the call of duty can be achieved but only if you, the artist, are willing to go above and beyond any and all calls of duty yourself. — Tori Amos

If you know me so well, tell me which hand that I use. — Tori Amos

If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass. — 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

Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself. — Tori Amos

My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way. — Tori Amos

Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand. — Tori Amos

The only way out is to go so far in. — Tori Amos

I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over. — Tori Amos

You don't know the power that you have with that tear in your hand — Tori Amos

The truth lies in between the 1st and the 40th drink — Tori Amos

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. — Tori Amos

I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form. — Tori Amos

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

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. — Tori Amos

Carbon made only wants to be unmade. — Tori Amos

I know that mess spelled backwards is ssem and I felt much better armed with that information. — Tori Amos

Not everyone wants you to become your potential, for whatever reason. — Tori Amos

I like butter and the people who like butter. — Tori Amos

I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul. — Tori Amos

Life Lessons by Tori Amos

1. Tori Amos has taught us to be brave and to never give up on our dreams, no matter how hard it may seem. She has shown us that we can be strong and independent, and that it is important to stay true to ourselves.
2. Through her music, Amos has taught us to be open to different perspectives and to never be afraid to express our emotions. She has encouraged us to be unapologetically ourselves and to never be afraid to take risks.
3. Finally, Amos has taught us to be compassionate and understanding of others, to always be kind and to never judge a person before getting to know them. She has shown us that we can make a difference in the world, no matter how small.