Quotes from Tori Amos

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.

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.

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

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.

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?

There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

I wanted to marry Lucifer. I feel his presence in my music.

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

These precious things, let them bleed.

I've been raising up my hands drive another nail in just what God needs one more victim

God sometimes you just don't come through, Do you need a woman to look after you?

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

Even if everything else is downplayed, I'll wear good shoes.