Tori Amos
Pretty is never beautiful.Collection: Beauty
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.Collection: Soulmate
I survived this torture which left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through sex. I really do feel as though I was psychologically mutilated that night and now I'm trying to put the pieces back together again. Through love, not hatred. And through my music. My strength has been to open again, to life, and my victory is the fact that, despite it all, I kept alive my vulnerability.Collection: Sex
Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.Collection: Girl
I'm the queen of the nerds.Collection: Queens
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.Collection: Character
People are the most fascinating mysteries I've ever read.Collection: People
I'm trying not to move, it's just your ghost passing throughCollection: Moving
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.Collection: Piano
And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.Collection: Belief
...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.Collection: Healing
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.Collection: Trying
I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over.Collection: Christian
These precious things, let them bleed.Collection: Philosophy
She's been everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own.Collection: Girl
I don't know what a shrink would call me. I don't want to know.Collection: Want
Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.Collection: Ice Cream
Neil [Gaiman, creator of the comic Sandman, featuring the Amos-based character Delirium] believes that faeries have gone beyond cool. They've transcended cool. I just think alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries. I'm sure I'll start thinking now about all the people I know who don't believe, that I quite like. We can still go have a pint. Not the Chardonnay, though.Collection: Believe
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?Collection: Home
Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.Collection: Focus
I'm a daughter of a minister and I love chasing the Dark. That which is hidden. I like licking it like ice creamCollection: Daughter
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.Collection: Art
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.Collection: True Happiness
Have a seat, while I take to the sky.Collection: Inspirational
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?Collection: Religious
Every place you land in life has a reason and a lesson.Collection: Land
There certainly are situations where I feel not empowered or uninspired. Particularly when the person's agenda is to intimidate through abusing their position or their authority. When I am present and in a nonreactive state, then I can become like snake and slide through their "intimidation net" back into the creative plane. When I am in a reactive state, I usually regret responding, because usually all that happens is that the intimidator feels righteously vindicated.Collection: Regret
You know when people smile too much? It's painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I'm trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.Collection: People
I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors and it's the shade that defines the light.Collection: Believe
In order for my live performance to work, which is about generating a focused energy for about an hour and a half, it is necessary for me to listen and take in someone else's focused energy the day of or the day before the live show. That can transpire through a conversation, or inspiration can occur by looking through any type of visual book which sparks a narrative. That narrative then becomes today's seed and can then take root in music terms, where a sonic tree begins to grow.Collection: Book
The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out.Collection: Spit
Your apocalypse was fab.Collection: Art
Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song.Collection: Song
You're only popular with anorexia.Collection: Art
Baker, baker, can you explain, if truly his heart was made of icing.Collection: Heart
Anyone who doesn't belive in Faeries, isn't worth knowing.Collection: Knowing
I'm standing naked before you. Don't you want more than sex?Collection: Sex
Men have periods too, they just don't bleed.Collection: Men
This whole Christian theology thing is that god came down to experience life through his son. Well, how's he experiencing life if he doesn't get laid? Give me a break. And why would he not get laid, as he created the apparatus in the first place?Collection: Christian
Is your place in heaven worth giving up these kissesCollection: Giving Up
Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.Collection: Natural
People can travel great distances on a computer, so why can't we travel that way emotionally?Collection: Distance
Confucius does his crossword with a pen.Collection: Religious
In my new life, no room for a lost boy.Collection: Boys
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 worldCollection: Sea
I've been raising up my hands drive another nail in just what God needs one more victimCollection: Hands
Not everyone wants you to become your potential, for whatever reason.Collection: Want
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.Collection: Suggestions
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.Collection: Mean