Singer-songwriter Tori Amos on music, creativity and grief

Tori Amos:

Yes, my mom. She was, she was just love. She was just a bundle of love, and I thought I had dealt with it. I really thought that I had dealt with her passing. But in that third lockdown in England, I know she would have known what to say. She always knew what to say on the other end of a phone, and she just wasn't there, and I wasn't being the mother that I wanted to be and my daughter came to me and said, You know, I know you've lost your mom, I've lost grandma and I miss grandma. But I need my mom, where's my mom? And she's, I mean, talk about a ton of bricks, from the sofest voice, I need my mom and I thought, OK, I have to write myself out of this place of this. I'm drowning in sadness. I'm drowning here and so I used that to work with.

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