41 Quotes By Tori Amos


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

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
Tori Amos on mom

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.
Tori Amos on mom

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.'
Tori Amos on mom

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

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.
Tori Amos on music

I don't see music as working.
Tori Amos on music

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
Tori Amos on music

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

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

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

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.
Tori Amos on relationship

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.
Tori Amos on religion

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.
Tori Amos on technology

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.
Tori Amos on trust

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.
Tori Amos on women

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
Tori Amos on women

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.
Tori Amos on women

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

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.
Tori Amos on women