#is

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

— Tori Amos

#father #house #minister #music #our

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth. ↗

— Tori Amos

#chose #christianity #got #i #look

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness. ↗

— Tori Amos

#darkness #fear #homosexuality #issue #own

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes. ↗

— Tori Amos

#crew #fun #keep #list #minutes

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs. ↗

— Tori Amos

#allow #always #brings #cliffs #depend

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. ↗

— Prince Philip

#car #door #either #his #man

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn. ↗

— Tori Amos

#being #church #corn #crab #father

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

— Tori Amos

#assume #business #business people #career #charge

Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like filling your house with more and more beautiful wicker baskets. It's supposed to be cumulative - it believes in progress. ↗

— Elif Batuman

#beauty

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all. ↗

— Tori Amos

#another #another woman #believe #biggest #feel