Tori Amos Art Quotations

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.

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.

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.

The rain is sharp today, as you shock me sane.

Your apocalypse was fab.

You're only popular with anorexia.

The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don't get confused.

Baker, baker, can you explain, if truly his heart was made of icing.

Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?

I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form...

Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said 'no.' I mean, you just don't want to marry someone you've wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

From in the shadow she calls. And in the shadow she finds a way, finds a way. And in the shadow she crawls, clutching her faded photograph. My image under her thumb. Yes with a message for my heart. She’s been everybody else’s girl maybe one day she’ll be her own.

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.

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?

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

Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.

I'm not somebody that gets played a lot at parties and weddings. I mean, you know, you mention my name and you get an eye roll, until, of course, you're jumping off a bridge.