Tori Amos Quotes

• "Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it."
• "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."
• "Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it."
• "I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely."
• "I moved to LA when I was 21. I felt like a kid in a candy shop. I'd be driving down the road and go 'Mmmmm'... there was a guy and Mmmmm.... there was a guy!"
• "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."
• "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."
• "Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred."
• "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."
• "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."
• "Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes."
• "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."
• "Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be."
• "The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding."
• "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."
• "What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close."
• "When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?"
• "Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power."
• "You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie."
• "An ounce of breast milk is even more potent than the finest tequila."
• "Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes."
• "In real life I'm bone dry and when I play I'm a mango and in sex I'm starving to be a dripping mango"
• "I'm really into moderation. Too much of anything will harm you in the end. Too much sugar. Too much pasta. I'm into drugs as a teaching tool, which is why I only take hallucinogenics. I mean, it's not like I've never done cocaine, but, on the whole, if I can't see dancing elephants then I'm not interested."
• "I'm a daughter of a minister and I love chasing the dark. That which is hidden. I like licking it like ice cream"
• "I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked."
• "“For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun."
• "Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again."