Those Things She Says..
"The Chistians think they're the only ones - when they say God, its their God. I don't see the divine force as these religions. I think these are all demigods."
Jane, 10/99

"A very internal record, this. Under the Pink is this world. Everybody's pink inside. If we tore all our skin off, we're all pink. It's what's within that interests me. You know there are many other things under the pink, but these are the ones that came to the party. There are many other layers to this work that weren't in the other work."
Tori Amos, Schwann Spectrum, 1994

"When the songs began showing up I wrote their names on separate envelopes and made a faery ring in the middle of the house. I'd go sit in the middle of the ring to focus on a song's direction. All of the songs seemed to work towards the completeness of the other, and they decided we needed to hang out with death for awhile."
Tori Amos on "Happy Phantom"

"My dad was a minister so I bought the whole Christian thing, but all I really cared about was spaghetti or tapioca pudding. I just wanted to lay on my bed and squeeze my legs, which is what a young girl should do, although I didn't realize that at the time. I laid on my bed and squeezed my legs together and thought, 'Oh, this is a curiousity.' "
Tori Amos

"Of course I believe in past lives, I mean, three quarters of the human race believes this, it's not like a great new thought here."
Tori Amos, All These Years biography

"I started to look at Christianity as Christian mythology instead of this be-all and end-all of what exists. Then I opened myself to many other faith systems the Christians I was surrounded by weren't open to."
Tori Amos, LA Weekly

"I remember the strangest things. Faces in the crowd, like during a concert in Minneapolis. There were people in the audience whose exterior I could describe accurately even now, while they did not impress me at all back there."
Tori Amos

"The people on the internet know more about what I am doing than I do. Like, they will say that I am going to be in this mall on this day, and sure enough, I am there."
Tori Amos, Dew Drop Inn Tour, June 17th, 1996

"I had a strange incident with a girl when I was eight. It was a bit violent, a bit sexual. She was a little older than me. She held me down on the bathroom floor, made me take my clothes off and fell on top of me. There are women now in my life I love and am in love with, but it hasn't got physical. I experienced it at such a young age, when I wasn't ready. A boundary was crossed. And maybe I drew a boundary, consciously."
Tori Amos

"I don't have to try in the least to shock people. My beliefs are sufficiently shocking to most people. Because we live in a culture where passion and sexuality have been replaced by shame. We are miles away from our hearts, our feelings. In Greek mythology the gods were sleeping with humans all the time. But the Christians claim Jesus was fathered without a single drop of sperm. There wasn't even a penis involved. It's a religion without penetration. And subsequently the same believers take their swords and chop the non-believers to pieces, stab babies to death and burn witches at the stake. And you think I'm shocking when I say I gave God a blowjob? Give me a fucking break."
Tori Amos, Nieuwe Revu

"I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap."
Tori Amos