572 Quotes by Tori Amos

Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom’s family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car – it was the late sixties – and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

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.

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?

I found the secret to life: I’m ok when everything is not ok.

Sometimes I hear my voice and it’s been here, silent all these years.

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.

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

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don’t touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?