Tori Amos
Tori Amos
Tori Amosis an American singer-songwriter, pianist and composer. She is a classically trained musician and has a mezzo-soprano vocal range...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth22 August 1963
CityNewton, NC
CountryUnited States of America
giving-up dont-give-up tonight
Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.
art book listening-to-others
Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new ideas because you don't want to take somebody else's ideas. You need to find your own. So if you go to different artistic mediums, whether it's dance or it's visual arts or films or books, stories, sometimes it gets you hearing things, hearing progressions that you wouldn't come up with if you were just listening to other music because you don't want to copy progressions you've just heard.
art book hearing-things
I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
interviews sometimes conversation
When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I've had conversations with journalists that I've never had with anybody else.
challenges
I don't allow challenges to trip me up.
brain lame helping
If you're a lame brain, then you're a lame brain. I can't help that.
choices growth different
Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice.
morning ignorance boys
Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends.
music song play
A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
people trying too-much
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.
mermaid drowning ifs
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning.
reality feelings looks
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist.
thinking heartless earth
Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.
beauty beautiful
Pretty is never beautiful.