Quotes from Tori Amos

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

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. I don't want to renounce my dark side. The truth has always held an enormous interest for me.

Haze all clouding up in my mind in the daze of the why it could've never been.

Strange, i thought i knew you well, thought i had read the sky, thought i had seen a change in your eyes.

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'.

Give me life Give me pain Give me myself again.

I believe in peace, Bitch.

I salute to you Commander and I sneeze 'Cause I have Now an Allergy To your policies it seems Where have we gone wrong America? Mr. Lincoln we can't seem to find you anywhere out of the millions From the deserts To the mountains Over prairies To the shores Is this just the Madness of King George Yo George Is this just the Madness of King George Yo George Well you have the whole Nation on all fours.

He said, first let's just unzip your religion down.

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

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

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

What I want is not to want what isn't mine

I'm the queen of the nerds.

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.

We don't often see our own stories. Good artists are the ones that whisper our own stories back to us.

Gimme peace, love, and a hard cock!

The Apocalypse is not something out there that will eradicate everything on planet Earth. That would be far too simple. The Apocalypse is in each and every one of us. It takes courage to fight the beast.

She told me once there is a part of her in everyone, though Neil believes I'm more Delirium than Tori, and Death taught me to accept that, you know, wear your butterflies with pride.

I'm an acquired taste. I'm anchovies. If I was potato chips I could go more places.

It's hard to hide a hundred girls in your hair.

Got a kick for a dog Beggin' for Love I gotta have my suffering So that I can have my cross I know a cat named Easter He says will you ever learn You're just an empty cage girl If you kill the bird I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets I've been raising up my hands Drive another nail in Got enough guilt to start my own religion

she said, these dead petals, honey, brought me here

You want listeners to smell the lavender, to feel the point of those knitting needles in a handbag of the granny who happens to harbor a loyalty to Madame Defarge. You want the listener to know the wood's burning in the stove when they walk into the song with me. Music is about all of your senses, not just hearing.