Tori Amos

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

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

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

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