Quotes By Tori Amos

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

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'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.

The pop world has really opened its doors.

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.

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

There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.

Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.

I like involved projects.

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

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.

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