I've always been attracted to Tori's music because it seems that she hasn't followed the trend that many popular female artists are doing, the idea that its "all gonna be ok." I am attracted to her music because she is balanced: a little faerie dust here, a little oozing wound here. A blooming flower, a trickle of blood. It's all there.

Here is a little section from an article that Mikewhy, who runs the famous Dent in The Tori Amos Universe, wrote about the subject:

"Life has a dark side to it that overshadows us more than we
care to admit. Tori faces her demons, and has tea with them.
There can be very sad and painful currents in her music.
Sometimes people find that brutal honesty too shocking.
They are unwilling to look at themselves that closely.

However, I also refer to Tori as a healer. Her music does much to help me, or rather it gives me the inspiration and tools I need to heal myself.

Tori says in an interview for the internet by Michael Pearce:

'I think there's so much emphasis on pushing things away,
instead of pulling them out of the closet. A lot of times
I just notice that people try to hide their dirt for as
long as possible. Monsters, dirt, whatever you want to call
it, the stuff that you censor and that you don't really want
to share with people. I think you can only do that for so
long before you start losing your mind. I'm finding a lot
of freedom right now in just looking at things that I really
feel. We're not encouraged to do that, and I think that's
what makes people sick inside of themselves...you're okay
if you have monsters.'

There is sorrow and a little crawling around in her music, but there is also hope, sweetness, love, passion, and fire. There is a desire to end suffering and avoid staying a victim.
That is why her devotees are so intensely into what she does. This is not always depressing. It can be beautiful and hopeful instead.'

I'll let a quote from Hot Press magazine and a lyric from her song Little Earthquakes end this article:

'I'd be quite happy, as an artist, if I knew that a verse,
even a line in one of my songs could do for people what
'Thelma and Louise' did for me, liberate them in some way,
particularly from a fear of the darker side of their own
nature.'

'Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again...' "