Quotes from Tori Amos

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

I'm very at home working with mythology.

There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.

Have a seat, while I take to the sky.

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

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.

Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off.

You don't know the power that you have with that tear in your hand

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.

When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.

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.

I've got enough guilt to start my own religion.

My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.

You have to really respect your path, or you will lose your mind.

I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?