572 Quotes by Tori Amos

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

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don’t accept anything less.

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn’t always the best way in.

My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’

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.

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.

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.

You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie.

What I want is not to want what isn’t mine.