Quotes By Tori Amos

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

I like involved projects.

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.

I like cosy, intimate houses.

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.