My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
Quote by Tori Amos
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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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Tori Amos Quotes
- In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
- I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
- I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.
- I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.
- The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
- In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
- You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.
- I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.
- I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
- 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.'
Best Quotes
- We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
- Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
- There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
- The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.
- There's an internal battle. I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids and the kids win.
- It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.
- A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
- I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.
- You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.
- When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.