Tortuous Quotes

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

I try to make everything I write a little bit different. Those songs that go, 'I love you so much and you love me,' they're boring. If I'm going to write a love song, it's going to be a little bit tortuous.