Quotes from Tori Amos

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about. I think our generation loves our pain, and if you dare take it away from us, we're going to kill you. We like our pain. And we're packaging it, and we're selling it.

That many southerners in our modern-day society, as rockets were beginning to go up to the moon, were still not over this particular wounding shows in some way the extent of this physical and spiritual bloodbath.

It's a good thing I'm curious, because sometimes I just research how a soccer player kicks a ball and the impact it has on his foot. I haven't used this yet, but I might.

Yes, Dad, very simply, She Is Risen. Our Lady of the Wood.

A time came later in my youth when I had to find the bridge between the aspects of playing music that constituted communication with myself, and performance. That's when I got a repertoire together, things that people would like. This is why I've done covers over the years.

The only thing this guy responded to was a firm line drawn in the sand. I just looked at him and said, "Cross this and we'll be having radio person medium rare for dinner.

The inspiration for "Cornflake Girl" came from a conversation she was having with a longtime friend about female genital mutilation in Africa, specifically how a close female family member would betray the victim by performing the procedure. Tori has said that growing up, the name they gave to girls who would hurt you despite close friendship was cornflake girls

Sometimes I fantasize backstage about how people do their laundry. Woolite? Mixed-color loads? Do they fold? Do they press? Do they Shout it out? And the thing that kills me—do their whites come out dingy? This you will not know with some performers backstage because they are in their iconic selves and icons don't do laundry.

Once she said to me, "One day, young lady, you will give your body and obedience to your husband and your soul to God." And I whipped around and said, "And what, pray tell, Grandma, are you saying is left for me?

Festivals or radio shows can be the heavyweight championships of arrogantly detached clusterfucks.

None of us are this light and dark fantasy. What's dark to you may be light to me and vice versa.

The Sídh's historical myth is the source of the bastardized concept of a fairy—as if anyone gives a rat's ass.

If what you're sowing isn't evil, you should have nothing to fear.

I was having a cup of tea with Mohammed and saying that there are as many belief systems as there are people; to not acknowledge that means chaos, really. Of course, I had to bring Gladys Knight into it. She's a bit of a goddess.

This is not your standard rock star's I-was-born-a-poor-genius self-deification, nor is it the opposite

The songs don't spring whole into existence; they are built.

The problem with Christianity is, they think everything is about outside forces, good and evil. There's not a lot of inner work encouraged. -Rolling Stone 1998

Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.

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

I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?

If they keep crashing stuff into the moon, the moon's gonna get pissed off, and the tides'll change, and all the women'll start PMS-ing together. Then you guys are going to fucking regret it.

If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No Chinese torture comes close.

I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.