#t

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

Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people. ↗

— Tori Amos

#big enough #enough #huge #intolerant #masses

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

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. ↗

— Tori Amos

#conversation #having #i #live #play

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

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30. ↗

— Tori Amos

#anything #being #enjoy #give #i

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it. ↗

— Tori Amos

#find #get #hear #like #listen