572 Quotes by Tori Amos

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

Some people say, I’d give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn’t. I didn’t enjoy being 30.

She’s been everybody else’s girl, maybe one day she’ll be her own.

I’m a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.

The truth lies in between the 1st and the 40th drink.

I produce the records. I don’t hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will – for commercial purposes.

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.

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