Top 280 Tori Amos Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I believe in eating. I think women especially have this fear of eating, and I think there is a whole euphoric plane you can rise to when you have a good meal. You sit down and with every bite you honestly just say thank you.”

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152. “If you can’t create physical life, you find a life force. If that’s in music, that’s in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.”

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153. “I’ve had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don’t repeat myself.”

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154. “What do you plan to do with all your freedom?”

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155. “You’d think that in this age, especially in the 21st century – especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we’ve made – that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.”

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156. “When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.”

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157. “As the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.”

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158. “Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.”

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159. “Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they’re beautiful.”

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160. “I like involved projects. I’m driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.”

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161. “Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.”

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162. “Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.”

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163. “Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don’t take it casually.”

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164. “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.”

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

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166. “My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the ’60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.”

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167. “The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.”

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168. “I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.”

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169. “I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.”

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170. “Again, we go back to the power of words and how they can make you feel. They bring liberation or stagnation, they’re chains. I began to see the structure of Tori – there’s conservatory, and victory: you see that word in so many different other words – also anti-inflammatory but my favorite has to be Yakatori chicken. And I began to feel that the sound of this name was a window.”

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171. “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.”

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172. “I find that in the 21st century, there’s not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.”

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173. “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. I think our generation loves our pain, and if you dare take it away from us, we’re going to kill you. We like our pain. And we’re packaging it, and we’re selling it.”

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174. “It’s emotional blackmail to say if you’re a good businesswoman and a musician, you’re betraying your music.”

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175. “I know I’m an acquired taste – I’m anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.”

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176. “There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.”

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177. “I’m not like a poker player. I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.”

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178. “I wanted to marry Lucifer. I feel his presence in my music.”

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179. “I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you’re not hiding anymore. It’s really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.”

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180. “Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.”

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181. “And my Saab is so great I’m gonna marry it.”

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182. “I know that mess spelled backwards is ssem and I felt much better armed with that information.”

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183. “I’m too young for a man, but I’m too old for a boy. So, can’t we just pretend, that I’m older than I really am, but then, only little girls pretend.”

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184. “The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.”

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185. “I’m a daughter of a minister and I love chasing the Dark. That which is hidden. I like licking it like ice cream.”

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186. “I can’t believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that’s what it takes to sail you home.”

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187. “I’ve been raising up my hands drive another nail in just what God needs one more victim.”

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188. “The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.”

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189. “A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.”

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190. “Boy, you better pray that I bleed real soon.”

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191. “I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.”

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192. “I like butter and the people who like butter.”

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193. “The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out.”

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194. “So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name.”

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195. “I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded.”

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196. “Tori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.”

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197. “What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.”

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198. “My parents think I’m better under pressure.”

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199. “There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.”

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200. “You don’t know the power that you have with that tear in your hand.”

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