Quotes from Tori Amos

I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare

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.

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

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don`t fit into boxes.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

Sometimes I breathe you in and I know you know.

Get off the cross, we need the wood.

Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.

On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.

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

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

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.

When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly.

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.

The violence between women is unbelievable...women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?

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.

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

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

So then I though I'd make some plans, but Fire thought she'd really rather be Water instead...

Over the last few hours I've allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore.

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

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.

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.