Tori Amos Quotes

You don't have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.

If you jump, you best jump far.

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

My parents think I'm better under pressure.

Sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here, silent all these years

I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.

I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was.

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

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

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.

Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It's about discipline. You have to push yourself.

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

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 love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

I like involved projects.

There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.

I like cosy, intimate houses.

When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.

I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded.

I want to be an integrated woman.

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

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

The rain is sharp today, as you shock me sane.

Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?

The pop world has really opened its doors.

My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.

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.

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

Baker, baker, can you explain, if truly his heart was made of icing.

Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.

Your apocalypse was fab.

I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate.

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.

Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song.

Pretty is never beautiful.

Boy, you better pray that I bleed real soon.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.

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.

I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.

I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.

You're only popular with anorexia.

I guess my husband is a muse as well.

I get tired of wearing the same thing all the time too.

I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.