Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song. — 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
The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out. — 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
This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact… — 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
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 wanted to marry Lucifer... I don't consider Lucifer an evil force...I feel his presence with his music. I feel like he… — 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
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 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
I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the… — 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
“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
If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
“A time came later in my youth when I had to find the bridge between the aspects of playing music that constituted… — 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
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'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked. — 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
If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone. — 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
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
I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny… — 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 Image
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 Image
Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
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 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 the songs… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
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 Image
When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself? — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
