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Boys are cute, but food is cuter.-- Tori Amos
"My work is much richer than my life."-- Tori Amos
"I don't know what a shrink would call me. I don't want to know."-- Tori Amos
The music is the magic carpet that the other things take naps on.-- Tori Amos
"I have so many different personalities in me, and I still feel lonely."-- Tori Amos
"To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad."-- Tori Amos
"And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried?"-- Tori Amos (Butterfly)
"The way I play is a bit torturous but... it's the only way I know how to play."-- Tori Amos
"Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it."-- Tori Amos
"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it."-- Tori Amos
"People can travel great distances on a computer, so why can't we travel that way emotionally?"-- 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
"When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?"-- Tori Amos
"I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck."-- Tori Amos
"I used to teach Sunday school. I had the biggest class...I had like 70 kids. But that was because I wore red leather pants to church."-- Tori Amos
I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. If I was potato chips, I could go a lot more places, but I'm not.-- Tori Amos
"She says control it, then she says don't control it, then she says you're controlling the way she makes you crawl."-- Tori Amos ("She's Your Cocaine")
"There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs."-- Tori Amos (CD Booklet)
"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
"If you weren't Cindy Crawford, you didn`t get to ride in the little cart. I saw them take her off on a little cart, and I thought, 'I'm in the wrong profession!'"-- Tori Amos (Chicago Tribune, October 8, 1992)
"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
"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
"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
"I open up more when it's conversational. Otherwise, they're proving how smart they are, and I'm proving how smart I am. It's a penis race, and we're both losing. I'd rather just hang out and see where it can go."-- Tori Amos (The Orlando Sentinel, April 12, 1996)
"I'm the Queen of the nerds. I love nerds- by which I mean, not a cool, bitchin' person. I guess I was a cool nerd. I wasn't shuffling my feet in the corner of the playground, I was the homecoming queen, but then, all the nerds voted for me."-- Tori Amos
"My concept of the great spirit is not the controlling force that is in institutional religion. When I say God, I'm talking about judgments over thousands of years that are horrific - love your neighbor but do what we say or we'll rape your women."-- Tori Amos
"When you, the writer, integrate your own material in your psyche, it changes you forever. Some writers allow songs to come through them, but don't take it in, so they don't grow. If they don't let it bring up questions in their own beings, they're just translators."-- Tori Amos
"[Men, particularly in the British press] come in asking me why I'm so agressive and why I hate them, and, and, what they don't understand with this record is that it's about incredible passion and incredible desire and incredible need and then, love. It's all gotta be in there if you're being fair about it."-- Tori Amos
"Almost every culture, every group, quote, unquote, has a way it wants to perceive things. And when I write songs, the Christians feel that because I'm not speaking the way they would like me to, that I don't believe in God, that I'm not part of the Christian formula. But being a minister's daughter, I know it very well."-- Tori Amos
"If you don't think, and you have no wit and you have so many hangups that you can't look beyond your cup of coffee then you're never going to understand what I'm really saying. Because you know what? You're going to shut down and close off before you hear me. If I'm threatening you, you're going to see it the way you need to see it so you can dismiss me."-- Tori Amos
"I've begun to work with the extremes of my own personality, not with any shrink. It's real simple; I just observe... I observe when I feel like an idiot and I try to crack a joke. But I'm not an idiot; why do I need to see psychiatrists to see that. Fuck that. I'm not an idiot. I don't think it pays in a week or year for me. I don't want to live that way anymore."-- Tori Amos
"We all get intimidated by showing ourselves, for whatever reason, we think, If I really show who I am, and someone goes [pfftt] then it's gonna crush me. Well, it's not gonna crush me. It doesn't crush you if somebody does that- somebody will do that. Many times. And once you accept that that's not why you're doing it, you're doing it because that's your form of expression."-- Tori Amos (Little Earthquakes video)