Quotes By Tori Amos

As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

To me glamour isn't about being sparkly.

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.

The pop world has really opened its doors.

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.

I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.

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 know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.

Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

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.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.