3 December 2020 Tori Amos 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.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos There’s a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can’t write. It’s a big business.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos 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.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos Music is always a reflection of what’s going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos 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.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos 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.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos 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.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the ’60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos 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.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos 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.’
3 December 2020 Tori Amos You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It’s hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn’t afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
