Quotes By Tori Amos

Even if everything else is downplayed, I'll wear good shoes.

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.

You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.

My favorite saying is, 'If it's too loud, turn it up.'

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.

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.

My childhood was extreme.

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

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.

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

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.

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.

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 see music as working.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

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

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?