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
If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone. — 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song. — 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
“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 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
