Top 280 Tori Amos Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “I’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.”

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202. “Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.”

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203. “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.”

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204. “I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.”

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205. “I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.”

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206. “I guess my husband is a muse as well.”

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207. “I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate.”

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208. “There is an energy that you carry when you’re nurturing another life where you’re protecting first – and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter’s gun, you can be a little more daring.”

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209. “Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn’t do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends.”

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210. “Somebody will come backstage and go, ‘You saved me.’ And I will have to say, ‘Stop right there. You saved yourself.’”

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211. “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.”

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212. “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.”

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213. “I really respect anybody who stands by their truth.”

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214. “Romance is important to me, and to have a romance with your husband takes a bit of doing. The key is to make sure your partner misses you. That means you have to take yourself away.”

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215. “I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap...”

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216. “I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I’m not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.”

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217. “Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.”

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218. “This whole Christian theology thing is that god came down to experience life through his son. Well, how’s he experiencing life if he doesn’t get laid? Give me a break. And why would he not get laid, as he created the apparatus in the first place?”

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219. “I realized that what was most important to me was following my own path, and not the one laid down for me by others.”

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220. “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.”

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221. “My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter.”

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222. “If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.”

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223. “The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.”

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224. “He said, first let’s just unzip your religion down.”

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225. “Baker, baker, can you explain, if truly his heart was made of icing.”

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226. “When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.”

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227. “I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.”

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228. “If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.”

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229. “I get tired of wearing the same thing all the time too.”

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230. “I like cosy, intimate houses.”

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231. “My childhood was extreme.”

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232. “Even if everything else is downplayed, I’ll wear good shoes.”

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233. “I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.”

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234. “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.”

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235. “I just hand shoes on the wall. They’re architecture you know.”

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

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237. “I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!”

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238. “I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.”

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239. “The pop world has really opened its doors.”

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240. “Some people say, I’d give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn’t. I didn’t enjoy being 30.”

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241. “There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.”

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242. “I don’t see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.”

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243. “My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.”

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244. “Anyone who doesn’t belive in Faeries, isn’t worth knowing.”

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245. “The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.”

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246. “I’m a mother, and that’s really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn’t get switched off.”

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247. “I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.”

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248. “To me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.”

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249. “A lot of songs are derivative of each other.”

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250. “I’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.”

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