I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare. Tori Amos More Quotes by Tori Amos More Quotes From Tori Amos I salute to you Commander and I sneeze 'Cause I have Now an Allergy To your policies it seems Where have we gone wrong America? Mr. Lincoln we can't seem to find you anywhere out of the millions From the deserts To the mountains Over prairies To the shores Is this just the Madness of King George Yo George Is this just the Madness of King George Yo George Well you have the whole Nation on all fours. Tori Amos mountain kings america To me glamour isn't about being sparkly. Tori Amos glamour Is your place in heaven worth giving up these kisses Tori Amos kissing giving-up giving I wanted to marry Lucifer... I don't consider Lucifer an evil force...I feel his presence with his music. I feel like he comes and sits on my piano. Tori Amos lucifer piano evil If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone. Tori Amos play writing song I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over. Tori Amos cringe fundamentalist christian 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. Tori Amos character believe reality Nothing's gonna stop me from floating Tori Amos floating It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes. Tori Amos toes writing fun I can't have discussions about it anymore, I just can't. When someone asks me if I've found Jesus, I say, 'Yeah, I saw him at a Nirvana concert a couple of years ago.' It's like, Jesus has got things to do, he's got a ten o'clock. He's not going to fix things for me, I have to fix things for myself, so I try and have a sense of humor about it and nobody finds my humor very amusing. We've just got to lighten up on the savior bit, folks. You know, get off the cross, we need the wood. Tori Amos couple years jesus Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon Tori Amos moon dark knows There's a sea secret in me / it's plain to see it is rising / but I must be flowing liquid diamonds / calling for my soul / at the corners of the world Tori Amos soul secret sea I've been raising up my hands drive another nail in just what God needs one more victim Tori Amos nails hands needs Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18. Tori Amos aunt niece years Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart? Tori Amos follow-your-heart heart rooms Sometimes I breathe you in and I know you know. Tori Amos breathe knows sometimes When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.' Tori Amos mom mother talking When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs. Tori Amos play conversation song There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world. Tori Amos jazz looks world There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring. Tori Amos hunters gun energy
