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Love Quote by Tori Amos

"I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes"

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Tori Amos frames desire as weather: not a mood but a force system she’s willing to stand inside. The line starts with a sly confession of agency - “I usually get myself into situations” - then immediately tries to soften the charge with a shrugging “I mean,” as if she’s translating something too hot to say plainly. “Sparks” suggests accident, chemistry, danger; it’s the language of both romance and wiring, intimacy and self-immolation. She’s not claiming chaos happens to her. She’s admitting she courts it because calm reads like anesthesia.

Calling herself “a girl that likes the storms” lands with a double edge. It’s girlish on purpose: a culturally coded word that can imply fragility, then she yanks it into a place of appetite and risk. The subtext is control-through-exposure: if you choose the storm, the storm can’t choose you. That’s a survivor’s logic dressed up as thrill-seeking, a way of reclaiming sensation after numbness - personal, artistic, and bodily.

Then she turns metaphor into skin. Bare feet on ice is an image of deliberate discomfort, a private ritual that proves aliveness through extremity. It’s not performative badassery; it’s tactile, almost devotional. For an artist whose work so often lives at the intersection of confession and myth, this reads like a mission statement: she makes music the way she lives - courting the elements, trusting that truth arrives as sensation before it becomes narrative.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Amos, Tori. (2026, January 15). I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-usually-get-myself-into-situations-that-cause-151540/

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Amos, Tori. "I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-usually-get-myself-into-situations-that-cause-151540/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-usually-get-myself-into-situations-that-cause-151540/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Tori Amos (born August 22, 1963) is a Musician from USA.

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