Quotes By Tori Amos

My childhood was extreme.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s.

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.

When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great.

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

I don't see music as working.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.

If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.

A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

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

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

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 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.