Quotes By Tori Amos

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

My childhood was extreme.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?