I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
TORI AMOSI guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
TORI AMOSTori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
TORI AMOSBeing in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
TORI AMOSMy ears are huge. If there’s ever a problem with a plane I’m on, they could just put me on the wing and I’ll land the sucker.
TORI AMOSThere is value in everybody’s gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.
TORI AMOSYou 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.
TORI AMOSTo me glamour isn’t about being sparkly.
TORI AMOSMy 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.
TORI AMOSPeople are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
TORI AMOSI’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
TORI AMOSI think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.
TORI AMOSThere are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said ‘Tori, you’ve made it. You’re nothing until you’ve been bootlegged.’
TORI AMOSI’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.
TORI AMOSFor 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.
TORI AMOSI’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
TORI AMOSIs there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?
TORI AMOS