The word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
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.
More Tori Amos Quotes
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Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.
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Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
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I’m a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
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Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
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I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
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There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
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You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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