Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos, August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range.
Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.
We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.
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.
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.
It took the love of a good man [to heal]. When I was reverting back into my, let's say, perversions, he would say: 'Let's go get an ice cream. I am not going to enable you. If you can only come as a wanton woman for hire, because you feel dirty and shamed, then no. Women are goddesses. ' And I know that and I believe that. I chose a man who believed that, too.
Your apocalypse was fab.
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.
I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.
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.
I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing.
There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?. ' That's a very different approach.
Sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here, silent all these years
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.
Get off the cross, we need the wood.
Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.
You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.
Even if everything else is downplayed, I'll wear good shoes.
I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.
The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe,. . . now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.