Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.
Tori Amos
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.
I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.
There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.
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.
I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.
I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.
Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.
I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts.
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.
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.
Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.
I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.
Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.
My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
When one doesn't want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren't competing against each other. I think when you are in the same field, it's difficult to leave it outside and not compete. Then when the doors are closed; that pervades everything.
I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
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.
Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.
I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.
I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.
I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.
When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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.
Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.
At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
My favorite saying is, 'If it's too loud, turn it up.'
If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?
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.
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
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.
There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.
Even if everything else is downplayed, I'll wear good shoes.
I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!
I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.
There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.
The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.
Romance is important to me, and to have a romance with your husband takes a bit of doing. The key is to make sure your partner misses you. That means you have to take yourself away.
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.
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.
I want to be an integrated woman.
I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.
