Tori Amos Quotations | Page 3

I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing.

It's [a miscarriage] all very thief-in-the-night. No one really knows what to say. You go into the emergency room, you think you're going to be a mum and you walk out empty. It's all neat and tidy, there's this potential being in your life and you're empty - all cleaned up and put back together, but completely shattered.

I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.

When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.

For many years, I shut down that place inside myself that needed to rage, cry, ask questions and basically just express herself. I made a conscious choice when I put (the song) 'Me and a Gun' on the record not to stay a victim anymore.

Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand.

Father Lucifer, you never looked so sane.

I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.

When they say take from my body, I think I'll take from mine instead. Getting off, getting off while they're all down stairs.

I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.