Tori Amos Quotes

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.
Tori Amos

Giving, Head, Hear

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
Tori Amos

Career, Writer, Carved

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

Art, American, Native

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.
Tori Amos

Music, Different, Keep

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

Alone, Writing, Living

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.
Tori Amos

Learn, Journey, Fine

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.
Tori Amos

Fun, Before, Keep

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.
Tori Amos

Life, Enjoyed, Fleeting

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.
Tori Amos

Music, Minds, Reflection

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

Off, Whether, Might

My childhood was extreme.
Tori Amos

Childhood, Extreme

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.
Tori Amos

Women, Mind, Father

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
Tori Amos

Music, Rock, Father

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.
Tori Amos

Father, Beer, Church

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

Saying, Turn, Favorite

My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.
Tori Amos

Husband, Him, Ask

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.
Tori Amos

Business, Career, Artists

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.
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

Greatest, Done, Law

Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.
Tori Amos

Half, Depressed

So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.
Tori Amos

Father, Gay, 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.
Tori Amos

Powerful, Woman, Another

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.
Tori Amos

Others, Hide, Intrigue

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.
Tori Amos

Give, Enjoy, Again

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.
Tori Amos

Find, Sometimes, Touch

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: August 22, 1963

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