572 Quotes by Tori Amos

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up.

My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter.

I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over....

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

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.'

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs... because they have the most to hide. The guys that are in the most pain are usually the ones with the biggest hearts.