My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
TORI AMOSDance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
More Tori Amos Quotes
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As the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
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There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.
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I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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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.
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I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you’re not hiding anymore. It’s really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.
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If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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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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After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
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I’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s.
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You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
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I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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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.
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Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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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.
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Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
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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.
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I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
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Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.
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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.
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If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.
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I like involved projects.
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Look, I’m standing naked before you; Don’t you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can’t claim innocence.
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