Tori Amos
Tori Amos
Tori Amosis an American singer-songwriter, pianist and composer. She is a classically trained musician and has a mezzo-soprano vocal range...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth22 August 1963
CityNewton, NC
CountryUnited States of America
song humanity trust-me
There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
information backwards mess
I know that mess spelled backwards is ssem and I felt much better armed with that information.
hippie age crystals
If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
girl winter wrists
I'm a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody's ready to slit their wrists.
important sometimes breathe
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.'
art thinking people
I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form...
strong today needs
Those of you who are strong need to be there for those who have lost someone today. We have to be here for each other right now.
crush thinking who-i-am
We all get intimidated by showing ourselves, for whatever reason, we think, If I really show who I am, and someone goes [pfftt] then it's gonna crush me. Well, it's not gonna crush me. It doesn't crush you if somebody does that- somebody will do that. Many times. And once you accept that that's not why you're doing it, you're doing it because that's your form of expression.
coffee thinking needs
If you don't think, and you have no wit and you have so many hangups that you can't look beyond your cup of coffee then you're never going to understand what I'm really saying. Because you know what? You're going to shut down and close off before you hear me. If I'm threatening you, you're going to see it the way you need to see it so you can dismiss me.
believe character reality
Neil [Gaiman, creator of the comic Sandman, featuring the Amos-based character Delirium] believes that faeries have gone beyond cool. They've transcended cool. I just think alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries. I'm sure I'll start thinking now about all the people I know who don't believe, that I quite like. We can still go have a pint. Not the Chardonnay, though.
christian cringe fundamentalist
I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over....
song best-love pain
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.
want call-me knows
I don't know what a shrink would call me. I don't want to know.
butterfly framed like-you
And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried?