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.
Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try.
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he's very much for women's rights.
Being able to hear an opinion. And then how to apply that opinion is something I am learning and working with every day. What can be tricky is how to differentiate a good suggestion that you should apply to your work [from] someone's personal taste at their opinionated best.
He said, first let's just unzip your religion down.
I have built my world through Native American mythology.
We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.
For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.
Pretty is never beautiful.
The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in. '
Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.
This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.
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?
I've got enough guilt to start my own religion.
Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14,000 children were sent away from their families in Cuba, some never to reunite again. Pan Am flights took the children to Miami FL, 'Never-Never Land', and the children became known as the 'Peter Pans. ' I wrote this song for my daughter, and it is sung for all the daughters and mothers, fathers and brothers who felt this pain of separation all because of governments and their politics.
I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
Boys are cute, but food is cuter
God sometimes you just don't come through, Do you need a woman to look after you?
I'm trying not to move, it's just your ghost passing through
I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.
I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap.