"Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work." The Times (London) January 21, 1994

"I think that people who can't believe in faeries aren't worth knowing. I just think alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries." Spin March 1996

"Disciplined is not what other musicians would necessarily call me; they might call me obsessed and relentless and really out of control." The Times (London) January 21, 1994

"For many years, I shut down that place inside myself that needed to rage, cry, ask questions, and basically just express herself. I made a conscious choice when I put 'Me and a Gun' on the record not to stay a victim anymore." R.A.I.N.N. (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network: 1-800-656-HOPE) Flyer 1994

"The reason I love to play Bosendorfers is because I think their whole manufacturing process is trying to keep them unmechanical -as unfactoryized -as possible, so that the soul of everybody who touches one or works with it is in there." Piano & Keyboard, May/June 1993

"It would be sad if you had to go through a rape to hear what I was saying in 'Me and a Gun,' and have compassion for that kind of violation. The strength that it takes to get up and sing that song every night is more than I ever imagined." Time Out New York, May 8-15, 1996

"I don't know what a shrink would call me. I don't want to know." Musician, May 1996

"Because Jesus maybe had a sexual encounter with a woman, did that make him less? Was he soiled by it and what does that say about women?" What's on Birmingham, December 21, 1991- January 17, 1992

"Who said that? Who made up that rule? And what grave is he in over in Europe? Who cares? The worms have eaten him. It's over." Keyboard Magazine, September 1992

"What girls do to each other is beyond description. No Chinese torture comes close." Really Deep Thoughts Fanzine, Winter 1994

"Most people would rather be sheep and have company than stand out on their own with antlers on." The Elle Guide To Living in Europe, January 1992

"My songs to me, they really exist - I call them the 'babes.' They come with trousseaus or with a knapsack on their backs." Vox, May 1996

"I'm a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes." Billboard, February 17, 1996

"Say we didn't have bodies and blood and guts, but just released these little light engergies like colors, then we could just merge. That's what making love is all about." Q Magazine, February 1992

"I realized  I was still looking to men for acknowledgment to make it OK. I was a vampire, trying to steal their fire." The London Observer, January 1996

"Pianos are like people every piano has a completely differnt personality." Keyboard Review, February 1992

"Sometimes just because it's a true statement doesn't mean anybody cares. So that's where the skill of storytelling comes in." Upside Down: Tori Amos Fan Club Magazine, Issue #6

"The Ladies' Room is a secret society, and when those lipsticks come out it's the heaviest artillery in the world - they guys have no idea what they're in for." The Authorized Biography: All These Years

"Everything is secondary when the songs are coming, I don't know what kind of mother I would be; it would depend on how the songs felt about the baby. I'm a musician before I'm a woman, no question." Keyboard, November 1994

"I started finding the people inside me . . . the prostitute that's really angry because I judge her so harshly . . . the self-righteous virgin who knows everything about sex and has never made love." Glamour, August 1992

"Whether mankind or womankind has created what God has become, the point is it's a very strong force that has divided us within ourselves. I mean religion has divided the whole planet." Take To The Sky (UK Fanzine) Winter 1994

"What gives it to you? Does this rush, this being in love, meeting someone that has it, you want to be close to it, you want to be near them? No. You can feed off them for a while, but in the end, you're just a vampire." Z100 Radio Interview, February 4, 1996

"I couldn't see that men's strength and physicality could be tender. I had to pretend I was a whore in my mind, thinking I was gonna get paid so that I could be detached and stay in control." Melody Maker, February 1994

More to come . . .