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.
Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.
Anyone who doesn't belive in Faeries, isn't worth knowing.
I really respect anybody who stands by their truth.
Have a seat, while I take to the sky.
I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off.
I wanted to marry Lucifer. I feel his presence in my music.
It took the love of a good man [to heal]. When I was reverting back into my, let's say, perversions, he would say: 'Let's go get an ice cream. I am not going to enable you. If you can only come as a wanton woman for hire, because you feel dirty and shamed, then no. Women are goddesses. ' And I know that and I believe that. I chose a man who believed that, too.
Those of you who are strong need to be there for those who have lost someone today. We have to be here for each other right now.
I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.
My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.
Muhammad, my friend, I'm getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law, and what about the deal on the flying trapeze?
We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.
Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
Get off the cross, we need the wood.
When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience. . . their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.
Your apocalypse was fab.
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
I think that people who can't believe in faeries aren't worth knowing. I just think that alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries.
This whole Christian theology thing is that god came down to experience life through his son. Well, how's he experiencing life if he doesn't get laid? Give me a break. And why would he not get laid, as he created the apparatus in the first place?
The truth lies in between the 1st and the 40th drink