Tori Amos

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1 Tori Amos 2 Sourced 3 Attributed 3.1 On Madonna 4 Quotes about Tori Amos by others 5 External links

Tori Amos

Sourced

• "If I saw someone destroy a piano I'd fuckin' kill 'em. Wouldn't think twice. (It's) Just defending your best friend!"
  • (French television interview, 1992)

• "This is very simple in the world of chicks: some are hoochies, some are not, and some should never try to be. It's no different from the idea of sports. Now, I can go on my little rowing machine for four times a week, twenty-two minutes a time, and I can feel as if I flirt with the sporting world. Similar to the idea that a woman can put on something cuter for her man, for those moments, and flirt with garments that a hoochie woman might be pushing. But never for one moment should you get confused. My little rowing machine and I cannot consider ourselves athletes. Wearing the same garment does not a hoochie woman make. So if you are a true hoochie woman, may garments below the navel always be in your future. If you are not, then please don't throw away your cotton zippy jacket."
  • From her book "Piece by Piece"

• An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.
  • "Purple People (Christmas in Space)"

• Just what God needs: one more victim.
  Why do we crucify ourselves?
  • "Crucify"

• Got enough guilt to start my own religion.
  • "Crucify"

• I've got a cat named Easter; he says, 'Will you ever learn?
  You're just an empty cage, girl, if you kill the bird.'
  • "Crucify"

• God, sometimes you just don't come through.
  • "God"

• So if I die today, I'll be the happy phantom,
  And I'll go chasing the nuns out in the yard,
  ...And the atrocities of school I can forgive:
  The happy phantom has no right to bitch.
  • "Happy Phantom"

• Look, I'm standing naked before you;
  Don't you want more than my sex?
  I can scream as loud as your last one,
  But I can't claim innocence.
  • "Leather"

• So you can make me come; that doesn't make you Jesus.
  • "Precious Things"

• So you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts.
  What's so amazing about really deep thoughts?
  Boy, you'd best pray that I bleed real soon --
  How's that thought for you?
  • "Silent All These Years"

• I think there are pieces of me you've never seen.
  • "Tear In Your Hand"

• 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.
  • "A Thousand Oceans"

• If you know me so well, then tell me which hand I use.
  • "Yes, Anastasia"

• A man bites into a dry peach and says "This peach is not good;" the peach replies "It is not my fault that you don't know the proper use for a dry peach."
  • A quote from the special inclusions in the sheet music book for her album "Under the Pink"

Attributed

• (When asked which she would give up: lip gloss, wine, or high heeled shoes.) "Which one I would give up? Lip gloss is not an option, so it's between wine and high heeled shoes. And depending on the day, I would give up either one. But I could not give up lip gloss. I would die. No, because there's no point in wearing high heel shoes without lip gloss, because your lips are dry. If you have wet lips, you can have bare feet, that's fine. If you have wine and dry lips, that's awful."

• "I'm not potato chips. I'm like a sardine. Not everybody likes those little suckers."

• "I'm a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes."

• "I'm a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody's ready to slit their wrists."

• "If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass."

• "If you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, then maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore."

• "The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in.'"

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

On Madonna

• "I'd like to fix her a big plate of spaghetti."
  • Speaking of Madonna

• "The one thing we need to understand is that if you're going to French kiss another woman, it doesn't mean you're going to be an ingenue at 40. If you're 20, it doesn't mean you're going to get wisdom. You're going to get some cute lipgloss on and a yummy feeling inside, but there's a bit of a devouring going on. When someone French kisses another woman to try and get something, that isn't passion; it's very interesting to me, an intriguing study. If you're going to French kiss somebody, French kiss a woman that can say, 'Okay, honey; okay sister, come with me and I'll show you a tongue like you've never seen before'. If you're going to walk down that road, do it! A tongue does not touch the intelligence inside another person. you know, Madonna's stayed around for 20 years, but Britney is not going to get that, and Madonna isn't going to become 20 years younger. I did not see 'I honour you' in that kiss. But that's me; that's what I saw."
  • Speaking about Madonna's kiss with Britney Spears)

Quotes about Tori Amos by others

• "Her cover version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is the reason Kurt killed himself"
  • Said by Courtney Love; she later recanted, stating "We used to slow dance to it together".

• "Two words: Tori Amos"
  • Said by character Leon on the television sitcom "Roseanne" when a group of people are trying to list annoying things.

• "Excuse me, but can I be a Jew for awhile?/You get to celebrate Haunnukah which has 8 days!/You get a lot more presents than Christmas/but then again, you can't eat pork!"
  • Molly Shannon in a spoof of Tori Amos on Saturday Night Live (to the tune of Amos' hit "Silent All These Years")

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