Tori Amos Quotes

Years go by Will I still be waiting
For somebody else to understand
Years go by
If I'm stripped of my beauty
And the orange clouds
Raining in head
Years go by Will I choke on my tears
Till finally there is nothing left
One more casualty
You know we're too easy Easy Easy

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?

So you can make me cum; that doesn't make you Jesus.

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.

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.

God, sometimes you just don't come through. Do you need a woman to look after you?

I found the secret to life; I'm okay when everything is not okay

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.'

Got enough guilt to start my own religion.

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

An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.

You could taste heaven perfectly.

And I rode along side
Till you lost me there
In the open road
And I rode along side
Till the honey spread
Itself so thin
For me to break your bread
For me to take your word
I had to steal it.

The intention is to tell a story, to create a sonic world for us, a sonic painting, for us to walk into, without having to see her. She's transcending that. She's choosing to transcend that. And that's a very powerful thing to do.

I just remember pulling aside, I was driving, and I heard it on the radio, in the states — and she didn't really get played a lot in the states, until that song — that really got played — a lot. I remember, I had to pull over, and listen to it, because I'd never heard anything like it.