Tori Amos

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.

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.

Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it.

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 get tired of wearing the same thing all the time too.

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.

I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts.

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.