Tori Amos

She's been everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own.

I have my own parties. They involve being barefoot with a piece of fried chicken and margarita in each hand.

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

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

Years go by will I still be waiting for somebody else to understand... sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here, silent all these years...

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.

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

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

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

If mankind recognizes that war is impossible...that all national rivalries are foolish...if they get together any kind of an extension of detente... then we may pull out of it all the better for it.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs.... because they have the most to hide. The guys that are in the most pain are usually the ones with the biggest hearts.

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.