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Piece by Piece QUOTES

1 " This is very simple in the world of chicks: some are hoochies, some are not, and some should never try to be. It's no different from the idea of sports. Now, I can go on my little rowing machine for four times a week, twenty-two minutes a time, and I can feel as if I flirt with the sporting world. Similar to the idea that a woman can put on something cuter for her man, for those moments, and flirt with garments that a hoochie woman might be pushing. But never for one moment should you get confused. My little rowing machine and I cannot consider ourselves athletes. Wearing the same garment does not a hoochie woman make. So if you are a true hoochie woman, may garments below the navel always be in your future. If you are not, then please don't throw away your cotton zippy jacket. "

― Tori Amos , Piece by Piece

2 " A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming. "

― Tori Amos , Piece by Piece

3 " ...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have. "

― Tori Amos , Piece by Piece

4 " We don't often see our own stories. Good artists are the ones that whisper our own stories back to us. "

― Tori Amos , Piece by Piece

5 " The Apocalypse is not something out there that will eradicate everything on planet Earth. That would be far too simple. The Apocalypse is in each and every one of us. It takes courage to fight the beast. "

― Tori Amos , Piece by Piece

6 " I'm an acquired taste. I'm anchovies. If I was potato chips I could go more places. "

― Tori Amos , Piece by Piece

7 " You want listeners to smell the lavender, to feel the point of those knitting needles in a handbag of the granny who happens to harbor a loyalty to Madame Defarge. You want the listener to know the wood's burning in the stove when they walk into the song with me. Music is about all of your senses, not just hearing. "

― Tori Amos , Piece by Piece

8 " But I needed to access the Dark Prince in myself, instead of pulling in men who had access to it. "

― Tori Amos , Piece by Piece

9 " From the ancient Inanna forcing herself to the underworld to visit her sister, Ereshkigal— passing through the seven gates of the underworld and then being hung on a hook, rotting— where she had to look at her sister, and her sister had to look at her. Both needed to see inside themselves, to see inside their own shadows. To come to terms with who they really were, not who they thought they were. "

― Tori Amos , Piece by Piece

10 " Every artist is born in a place, within a family, and though she may leave those sources far behind, they remain within her. "

― Tori Amos , Piece by Piece

11 " As soon as you stop being humbled by the creation process, Little One, it is so much bigger than you are. And when you think it is you and you are it, it will drown you or burn you alive. "

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12 " Again, we go back to the power of words and how they can make you feel. They bring liberation or stagnation, they're chains. I began to see the structure of Tori—there's conservatory, and victory: you see that word in so many different other words—also anti-inflammatory but my favorite has to be Yakatori chicken. And I began to feel that the sound of this name was a window. "

― Tori Amos , Piece by Piece

13 " For years I've gathered various books, sources. When I was little it might have been Tolkien, and so I would have just four books around me. I couldn't afford many books at the time, so I'd have what I had. Maybe I'd tear out ten or twenty pictures from magazines because I couldn't afford art books. I would check out library books and try to keep them as long as I could, but I couldn't jot my notes in them. For any particular song, I can't tell you the books that were on the floor, the photographs on the floor. I don't let anybody keep a record of that. Those are the secret ingredients. "

― Tori Amos , Piece by Piece

14 " Do you know who we are Mum?” And at that moment I just look into her blue planets for eyes, and she says, “We are Daughters of Song, Mama.” And at that I jump up with new life, pick her up, and say, “Now let's go play”_____ "

― Tori Amos , Piece by Piece

15 " I know now that my avatar all along has been closer to Lisa Simpson than anyone else. "

― Tori Amos , Piece by Piece

16 " Music has an alchemical quality. And there's more than one voice on the piano. You have two hands. One can be playing a celestial melody while the other is doing quite the opposite. The joining of the profane and the sacred, or the passionate and the compassionate, happens right there on the keyboard. "

― Tori Amos , Piece by Piece

17 " When I went on this trip I had a sexual/spiritual experience with a creature named Lucifer. "

― Tori Amos , Piece by Piece

18 " There have been many other performers brought up by very religious parents, and then when they are able to own this essence and put it into their music, the sensual-sexual thing that they were not allowed to acknowledge and partake of in real life actually materializes in the music. If anybody knew you were consciously partaking of this sensual-sexual thing, you'd be ostracized. You would be thought of as sinful. Elvis went through something like this, if you think about it. Trace the roots of American popular culture, and the story is there. "

― Tori Amos , Piece by Piece

19 " Tori is the woman in your neighborhood who stops by your garden, pauses, and gets you going for three hours on the topic of lilies that grow best in winter sun. Later, you'll walk by her pea patch and discover the most spectacular flower, not exactly what you planted, but something that shows the influence of the tips you shared. "

― Tori Amos , Piece by Piece

20 " Listen—when you're on the toilet, from the point of view of the toilet, you are not an icon taking a crap. You are a bottom taking a crap. If you can get that, you're going to be okay. "

― Tori Amos , Piece by Piece