Quotes By Tori Amos

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

I guess my husband is a muse as well.

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.

I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded.

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.

I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

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.

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.

To me glamour isn't about being sparkly.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The pop world has really opened its doors.

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.

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

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.