Quotes from Tori Amos

Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.

The rain is sharp today, as you shock me sane.

Your apocalypse was fab.

You're only popular with anorexia.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It's the perfect job.

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.

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.

People can travel great distances on a computer, so why can't we travel that way emotionally?

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating.

The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved, ... I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.

Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

My favorite saying is, 'If it's too loud, turn it up.'

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

Father Lucifer, you never looked so sane.

My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.

Boys are cute, but food is cuter