572 Quotes by Tori Amos

Over the last few hours I've allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore.

I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.

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

Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.

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

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

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.

In order for my live performance to work, which is about generating a focused energy for about an hour and a half, it is necessary for me to listen and take in someone else's focused energy the day of or the day before the live show. That can transpire through a conversation, or inspiration can occur by looking through any type of visual book which sparks a narrative. That narrative then becomes today's seed and can then take root in music terms, where a sonic tree begins to grow.

There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.