“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.”

American singer-songwriter and pianist

Tori Amos is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. A classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano voice, she began as a child prodigy and later came of age as a pianist in Washington, D.C. bars. She first drew attention in the 1980s as the lead singer of the short-lived pop-rock group Y Kant Tori Read. Amos achieved her breakthrough as a solo artist in the early 1990s. Her songs often address sexuality, feminism, politics, and religion, and her work is marked by the combination of piano-driven music and personal, often provocative themes.