black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.

Tori Amos

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.
TORI AMOS

Choices Growing Keys Up
If you can’t create physical life, you find a life force. If that’s in music, that’s in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
TORI AMOS

Hands Moving Sorrow
If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
TORI AMOS

Brain Helping Lame
I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
TORI AMOS

Daughter Nursing Whale
Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
TORI AMOS

Jobs Perfect Work
I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!
TORI AMOS

Drunk Moisture Water Way
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
TORI AMOS

Explore Names Touching
I think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
TORI AMOS

Country Dream People Thinking
There’s a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
TORI AMOS

Jazz Complicated Looks World
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
TORI AMOS

Father Kings Rights
As the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
TORI AMOS

Choices Night Sun
There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
TORI AMOS

Listening Routine Way
The last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
TORI AMOS

Girl Survivor Want
I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
TORI AMOS

Change Children Thinking
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
TORI AMOS

Empowering Songwriters Storyteller
When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
TORI AMOS

Conversation Interviews Sometimes

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tori Amos Quotes