Amos: "I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely."

Amos: "There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't."

Amos: "There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing."

Amos: "Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin."

Amos: "Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes."

Amos: "I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes."

Amos: "If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone."

Amos: "In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe."

Amos: "Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be."

Amos: "I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table."

Amos: "I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege."

Amos: "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."

Amos: "Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again."

Amos: "There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring."

Amos: "I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked."

Amos: "I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes."

Amos: "An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time."