Quotes By Tori Amos

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.

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.

Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.

I get tired of wearing the same thing all the time too.

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

I want to be an integrated woman.

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

I don't kid around.

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.

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.