Tori Amos
From her songs
- Just what God needs: one more victim.
Why do we crucify ourselves?
- Got enough guilt to start my own religion.
- 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.'
- God, sometimes you just don't come through.
- 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.
- 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 you can make me come; that doesn't make you Jesus.
- 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?
- I think there are pieces of me you've never seen.
- 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.
Spoken
- "I'm not potato chips. I'm like a sardine. Not everybody likes those little suckers."
- "If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass."
- "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.)
- "If you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, them maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore."
- "When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?"
- "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.'"
- "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."
In regards to Madonna
- "I'd like to fix her a big plate of spaghetti."
In regards to Madonna's kiss with Britney Spears)
- "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."
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