For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.
Tori Amos

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.
Tori Amos

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.
Tori Amos

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

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

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

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.
Tori Amos

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.
Tori Amos

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.
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


Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.
Tori Amos

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
Tori Amos

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

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.
Tori Amos

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

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.
Tori Amos

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
Tori Amos

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.
Tori Amos

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.
Tori Amos