Quotes from Tori Amos

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.

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

To me glamour isn't about being sparkly.

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.

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.

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

I found the secret to life: I'm ok when everything is not ok.

...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.

There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.

Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing.

I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.

I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.

Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.

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.

I get tired of wearing the same thing all the time too.

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.