Top 154 Quotes by 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.

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

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.

I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off.

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.