Quotes By Tori Amos

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.