Top 280 Tori Amos Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 3 of 6

101. “I’m the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over...”

— Tori Amos

102. “There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.”

— Tori Amos

103. “I’m not somebody that gets played a lot at parties and weddings. I mean, you know, you mention my name and you get an eye roll, until, of course, you’re jumping off a bridge.”

— Tori Amos

104. “After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.”

— Tori Amos

105. “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

106. “Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that’s slightly different in order to get inspiration.”

— Tori Amos

107. “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.”

— Tori Amos

108. “For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they’re dykes, and they’re always good fun.”

— Tori Amos

109. “I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they’re overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.”

— Tori Amos

110. “If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.”

— Tori Amos

111. “You don’t have to apologize for growing and learning and changing your mind.”

— Tori Amos

112. “The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.”

— Tori Amos

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

— Tori Amos

114. “Haze all clouding up in my mind in the daze of the why it could’ve never been.”

— Tori Amos

115. “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.”

— Tori Amos

116. “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.”

— Tori Amos

117. “I don’t mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else’s object.”

— Tori Amos

118. “Do we soon forget the things we cannot see?”

— Tori Amos

119. “Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?”

— Tori Amos

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

— Tori Amos

121. “There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said ‘Tori, you’ve made it. You’re nothing until you’ve been bootlegged.’”

— Tori Amos

122. “I’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.”

— Tori Amos

123. “I like involved projects.”

— Tori Amos

124. “Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people – there’s not a great downside to it.”

— Tori Amos

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

— Tori Amos

126. “Those of you who are strong need to be there for those who have lost someone today. We have to be here for each other right now.”

— Tori Amos

127. “My ears are huge. If there’s ever a problem with a plane I’m on, they could just put me on the wing and I’ll land the sucker.”

— Tori Amos

128. “You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.”

— Tori Amos

129. “You have to be clear what your message is and what you’re doing. I mean, Miley Cyrus is an amazing talent, and sometimes you kind of just want to say, ‘We know you’re not Hannah Montana anymore. We know that, my dear. My darling. Now, go be great.’”

— Tori Amos

130. “Your apocalypse was fab.”

— Tori Amos

131. “Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it’s the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.”

— Tori Amos

132. “Don’t give up. Don’t listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don’t get it tonight.”

— Tori Amos

133. “Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what’s difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That’s very tricky.”

— Tori Amos

134. “Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.”

— Tori Amos

135. “Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.”

— Tori Amos

136. “When you’re in your 20s, there’s maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you’re not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great.”

— Tori Amos

137. “I have built my world through Native American mythology.”

— Tori Amos

138. “You’re only popular with anorexia.”

— Tori Amos

139. “To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.”

— Tori Amos

140. “I’m too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?”

— Tori Amos

141. “God sometimes you just don’t come through, Do you need a woman to look after you?”

— Tori Amos

142. “I think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.”

— Tori Amos

143. “People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.”

— Tori Amos

144. “When they say take from my body, I think I’ll take from mine instead. Getting off, getting off while they’re all down stairs.”

— Tori Amos

145. “I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.”

— Tori Amos

146. “Muhammad, my friend, I’m getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don’t know the law, and what about the deal on the flying trapeze?”

— Tori Amos

147. “I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.”

— Tori Amos

148. “I produce the records. I don’t hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will – for commercial purposes.”

— Tori Amos

149. “The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, ‘Sometimes I just breathe you in.’”

— Tori Amos

150. “When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.”

— Tori Amos