About Tori Amos: Tori Amos is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and composer. She is a classically trained musician and has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. She has received eight Grammy nominations.
My parents think I'm better under pressure.
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.
You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.
Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.
When one doesn't want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren't competing against each other. I think when you are in the same field, it's difficult to leave it outside a...
I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off.
As a songwriter, I'm gathering clues and possibilities all the time, whether I see a piano that day or not. I've tried to explain to people how I collect these dispatches, because I think anybody can do what I'm talking about. Once I do plug in, I mi...
And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.
I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?
So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.
she said, these dead petals, honey, brought me here
I salute to you Commander and I sneeze 'Cause I have Now an Allergy To your policies it seems Where have we gone wrong America? Mr. Lincoln we can't seem to find you anywhere out of the millions From the deserts To the mountains Over prairies To the ...
Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.
Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.
Strange, i thought i knew you well, thought i had read the sky, thought i had seen a change in your eyes.
The violence between women is unbelievable...women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
sleeping beauty/ trips me with a frown
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.
After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
