Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said 'Tori, you've made it. You're nothing until… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is,… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Im a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
For many years, I shut down that place inside myself that needed to rage, cry, ask questions and basically just express herself.… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs... because they have the most to… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature.… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I've always seen the songs as having a consciousness. Since I was two-and-a-half they would come to me from nowhere. I never… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
“You want listeners to smell the lavender, to feel the point of those knitting needles in a handbag of the granny who… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14,000 children were sent away from their families in Cuba, some never to reunite… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
“I think of the structure of any particular song as a house. The bathroom is the bathroom, and you have to understand… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I don't feel I've translated them correctly. I listen to other songwriters and think they have translated their Sonic Light Being… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
“Music has an alchemical quality. And there's more than one voice on the piano. You have two hands. One can be playing… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I've never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I'm an emotional player. I don't really like people. I… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I fantasize backstage about how people do their laundry. Woolite? Mixed-color loads? Do they fold? Do they press? Do they Shout it out?… — Tori Amos Copy Share
I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get… — Tori Amos Copy Share
Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light. — Tori Amos Copy Share
There certainly are situations where I feel not empowered or uninspired. Particularly when the person's agenda is to intimidate through abusing their position or… — Tori Amos Copy Share
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… — Tori Amos Copy Share
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little. — Tori Amos Copy Share
Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being… — Tori Amos Copy Share
My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning,… — Tori Amos Copy Share
