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.
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.
Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.
My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.
If you know me so well, tell me which hand that I use.
In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you'll create something magical that might be the best thing you've ever accomplished
I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.
Every place you land in life has a reason and a lesson.
I get tired of wearing the same thing all the time too.
I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.
Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
I'm a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody's ready to slit their wrists.
I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.
Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.
You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.
Nothing's gonna stop me from floating
People can travel great distances on a computer, so why can't we travel that way emotionally?
Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.
I'm very at home working with mythology.
After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
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?