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.
I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.
Is your place in heaven worth giving up these kisses
I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song.
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.
When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.
Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried?
The sun is getting dim, will I pay for who I've been?
I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.
The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.
On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.
You're only popular with anorexia.
You know when people smile too much? It's painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I'm trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift. . . Womanhood is a choice.
I believe in eating. I think women especially have this fear of eating, and I think there is a whole euphoric plane you can rise to when you have a good meal. You sit down and with every bite you honestly just say thank you.
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 prefer my piano to people. It's totally reliable and it's alive. I can hear what it's saying.
For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.