Quotes from Tori Amos

My grandmother really liked virgins. There's nothing wrong with virgins, there's a time and a place for that. I had other things on my mind... like Robert Plant.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!

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

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

I'm a daughter of a minister and I love chasing the Dark. That which is hidden. I like licking it like ice cream

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the back-story.

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.

and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.

Muhammad, my friend, I'm getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law, and what about the deal on the flying trapeze?

Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It's about discipline. You have to push yourself.

When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.

I want to be an integrated woman.

I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.

I really respect anybody who stands by their truth.

I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.