"I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked."
""I almost ruined the whole thing. I was looking at that girl on the tv screen and thinking, if I stop, will she keep playing? If she stops, do I keep playing? It was all live, and for three seconds I froze in the middle of Silent, and I thought I was never going to get it together again. I just panicked." (talking about guest appearance on the Jonathon Ross Show, her first British tv appearance)
"I knew I had to change direction because it was like, 'Yeah, we've already seen you naked; now what do you have? Skinless?' So with Under the Pink, I put some clothes on."
"You know if I'm going to have a boy in my video I'm going to be eating him." (of the video for Cornflake girl )
"I am garlic personnified. You know, garlic and extra virgin olive oil. Garlic is garlic. You don't want it in ice cream, but you definetly want it when there are vampires around."
-Above quotes taken from Tori Amos-All These Years, the Authorized Illustrated Biography, by Kalen Rogers, copyright 1996, Omnibus Press
"I happen to adore red lipstick. It just gets on everything, so I usually only wear it when I do laundry bare-assed." -from Spin, October 1994
"Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes. -Tori Amos -Breakfast with Tori, KROQ, May 8, 1998
"I had millions of friends from the other world. As a little girl, you play with who you can, and if they're not in human form, they're still very real to you."
"From child prdigy to musical joke in twenty years-how do you reconcile that? So I went back to the fareie world."
"I thought I was never gonna get married, but it felt right. I didn't have a fantasy of this ritual, and I played at so many weddings."
"The piano pulled me aside and 'You're boring me to tears'. So I was like 'Calling all sailors'." ( speaking of Choirgirl)
"You would not have wanted have wanted to have a drink with me during that record." (speaking of Pele)
"You're playing your wound-and sometimes you reach your hand in there and it doesn't feel so good."
"I want to torture people who don't understand the world of faeries."
"You get some reporter from Vogue who doesn't know what she's talking about, who paints me as this Tinkerbell character-well, Tinker Bell ain't up my Strasse, baby. I'm not some shivering waif in the forest. Sometimes I want to grab these bitches by the hair and take them them to the world of the faerie and say, 'Would you repeat that?'."
"I hated her, sures, but you had to admire her power of people. She definetly had a mission." (of church)
-All above quotes that have no souce are taken from Rolling Stone 789, June 25, 1998
