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.
My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter.
People are the most fascinating mysteries I've ever read.
I really respect anybody who stands by their truth.
I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.
It's not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it's okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner.
I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends.
I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.
People can be quite bullish with their opinions. That does not mean they have their finger on the pulse. It just means they value their own opinion.
Men have periods too, they just don't bleed.
I like cosy, intimate houses.
Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.
I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was.
Romance is important to me, and to have a romance with your husband takes a bit of doing. The key is to make sure your partner misses you. That means you have to take yourself away.
Do we soon forget the things we cannot see?
And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.