Quotes from Tori Amos

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

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.

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

I don't see music as working.

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

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

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

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

A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.

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

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

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

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.

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

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

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

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

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.

There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.

A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.