Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos, August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range.
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.
You have to be clear what your message is and what you're doing. I mean, Miley Cyrus is an amazing talent, and sometimes you kind of just want to say, 'We know you're not Hannah Montana anymore. We know that, my dear. My darling. Now, go be great. '
People are the most fascinating mysteries I've ever read.
You don't have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.
For many years, I shut down that place inside myself that needed to rage, cry, ask questions and basically just express herself. I made a conscious choice when I put (the song) 'Me and a Gun' on the record not to stay a victim anymore.
I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.
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.
God sometimes you just don't come through, Do you need a woman to look after you?
Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
Father Lucifer, you never looked so sane.
and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in. '
If all I can say is I'm not in this swamp, I'm not in this swamp then there is not a rope in front of me and there is not an alligator behind me and there is not a girl sitting at the edge eating a hot dog and if I believe that, then dying would be the only answer because then Death couldn't come and say Peachy to me anymore and after all she has a brother who believes in hope.
When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.
People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.