I have a love for shoes. I collect them. Race cars, paintings; those aren’t my thing. I just hang shoes on the wall. They’re architecture, you know?
Tori Amos
- Born
- 1963
- Occupations
- singer-songwriter, pianist, composer
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I love being in a skirt and boots. It goes back to the librarian-principal look. I like the idea of carrying books around in a skirt.
Tori Amos
I’m a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.
Tori Amos
I'm really into moderation. Too much of anything will harm you in the end.
Tori Amos
I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can’t have the dream without the nightmare.
Tori Amos
Somebody will come backstage and go, 'You saved me.' And I will have to say, 'Stop right there. You saved yourself.'
Tori Amos
The dark side is not something most people think is inside them.
Tori Amos
There is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard it is to find or how strange it is.
Tori Amos
The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.
Tori Amos
The way I see it, the men that I'm with, whoever they are, it's like look, you have to accept that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can't accept that, then leave. Go away. Toodles. It is non-negotiable.
Tori Amos
To have some honest moments is a rarity. We're not encouraged to really look at what we're feeling.
Tori Amos
When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?
Tori Amos
When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly.
Tori Amos