Tori Amos
Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing.Collection: People
We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.Collection: Clarity
When you value your crew, they look after you.Collection: Looks
When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.Collection: Listening
There are quite a few very funny people in my life. You know those people who don't mean to be funny, they just come out with these zingers that just make you howl with laughter. Usually you find these people in the road crew. A good crew is a key to a healthy funny bone.Collection: Laughter
If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering.Collection: Song
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.Collection: Empowering
Getting people to go above and beyond the call of duty can be achieved but only if you, the artist, are willing to go above and beyond any and all calls of duty yourself.Collection: Artist
I don't allow challenges to trip me up.Collection: Challenges
When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I've had conversations with journalists that I've never had with anybody else.Collection: Interviews
Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.Collection: Giving Up
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.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Art
Boy, you better pray that I bleed real soon.Collection: Honesty
There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said 'Tori, you've made it. You're nothing until you've been bootlegged.'Collection: Home
The rain is sharp today, as you shock me sane.Collection: Art
When soulmates come and go, you’re never alone, even when you’re standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.Collection: Soulmate
For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they’re dykes, and they’re always good fun.Collection: Fun
He said, first let’s just unzip your religion down.Collection: Firsts
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.Collection: Stories
I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?Collection: Reading
It’s fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.Collection: Fun