#d

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols. ↗

— Tori Amos

#carolina #carolinas #chains #christmas #down

I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it. ↗

— Tori Amos

#child #having #i #i think #open

I want to be an integrated woman. ↗

— Tori Amos

#integrated #want #woman

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano. ↗

— Tori Amos

#first #half #i #piano #sat

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table. ↗

— Tori Amos

#bluff #cards #eye #go #i

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer. ↗

— Tori Amos

#carved #i #myself #out #really

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself. ↗

— Tori Amos

#different ways #exploring #had #i #keep

If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them? ↗

— Tori Amos

#games #go #good #groups #haven

My childhood was extreme. ↗

— Tori Amos

#extreme

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

— Tori Amos

#father #king #marched #mind #much