Tori Amos

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

I want to be an integrated woman.

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

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.

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

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.

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

Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what's difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That's very tricky.