Tori Amos

“My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.”

“This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.”

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

“I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.”

“When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.”

“The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.”

“I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.”

“The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.”

“My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.”

“There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.”

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